From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 20 08:44:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EAA4106567A for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:44:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerald@pfeifer.com) Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.131.111.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E499E8FC31 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:44:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerald@pfeifer.com) Received: from acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (acrux [128.131.111.60]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C983912C; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:19:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Postfix, from userid 1203) id 8986C10054; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:19:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7902410051; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:19:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:19:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Anton Shterenlikht In-Reply-To: <20080708091924.GA9171@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> Message-ID: References: <20080708091924.GA9171@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LSU 1026 2008-04-08) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lang/gcc42 on alpha X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:44:58 -0000 Hi Anton, On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I've been using lang/gcc42 on alpha for more than a year now. > My calculation shows that the port was updated 25 times during > last year. Each time I upgraded the port with no problem, except > for as failure, which happens on my i386 just the same: thanks for the report. This is the first feedback I got during the more than three years that we have had NOT_FOR_ARCHS=alpha for the newer lang/gcc ports. > Accordingly I wonder why lang/gcc42 is still marked > NOT_FOR_ARCHS= alpha > > Are there other alpha users who have trouble with this port? The original reports that triggered this change came from the FreeBSD Ports Build Cluster. I did some archeology, and here is what I had sent to a member of the portmgr team back than in response, which resulted in the suggestion to use NOT_FOR_ARCHS: I just wasted a couple of ours bringing sparc64 back to bootstrap-land for GCC 4.0 and GCC 4.1 because *nobody*, not a single FreeBSD developer or user apparently tried to build either for many moons. And now the same is starting for alpha; isn't that a waste of our time, for the sake of one or two enthusiasts? I'm fine giving it a try and remove NOT_FOR_ARCHS=alpha for lang/gcc42. If there are problems with it, I may ask you for help or put this back in, though. ;-) > [I] can put NOT_FOR_ARCHS= '' in my make.conf and avoid having to edit > the Makefile each upgrade. Shouldn't "cvs update" handle this gracefully and keep the change while merging in the other updates? Gerald -- Gerald (Jerry) Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/