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 repository is too outdated.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)