On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 12:23:03PM +0900, lain. wrote:
> I just updated my ports tree with "cvs -q up -Pd -A", the usual stuff,
> and tried to install net/weechat from the ports, because the one in the
> repository is too outdated.
> This is the problem:
> 
> ```
> # make install
> Fatal: requires make(1) with .VARIABLES support (in net/weechat)
> *** Error 1 in /usr/ports/net/weechat 
> (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:3808 '.BEGIN': @exit 1)
> ```

Be happy that I added an explicit check to bsd.port.mk itself!

Instead of a fairly explicit error message, you would have gotten
some really weird errors sooner or later (well sooner rather than later)

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