Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 16:38:00 +0200 From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: <spankthespam@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappearing programs: Is FreeBSD ports unmaintained? Message-ID: <5385f4c8.EdoSK8xux81eCGaT%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <CAHcXP%2Bcb=1xwbirdKgeokmVu4WbTM8g=u72DHJZndbanv2RNgg@mail.gmail.com> References: <537ca253.L5UAU8FjzLGouZBI%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <CAHcXP%2Bcb=1xwbirdKgeokmVu4WbTM8g=u72DHJZndbanv2RNgg@mail.gmail.com>
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Big Lebowski <spankthespam@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Joerg,
>
> The only problem is that if such port is unmaintained (its maintainer email
> address is ports@freebsd.org) there's no one who could do such thing,
> because commiters are busy working on the entire ports tree, and apparently
> no one from maintainers was interested in the port to do so. If you are,
> submit a PR with setting yourself as a maintainer, and then you can take
> care of the ports updates and adjustment to changing and evolving ports
> tree.
I am supplying people with the portable source code. That should be suffucient.
Given the fact that there is no FreeBSD related bugreport against star or smake,
I assume that you would get the code to compile if you just use a recent
_unmodified_ source.
I encourage you to remove the FreeBSD specific patches that do not seem to
serve a need but affect portability.
There have been recent surce updates for smake and star that include even
special workarounds for the problems caused by clang.
Jörg
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