From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Mon Feb 19 17:01:51 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A166F104E4 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:01:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jkeenan@pobox.com) Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (pb-smtp1.pobox.com [64.147.108.70]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C4DEF7F50A for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:01:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jkeenan@pobox.com) Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99870D3D9A; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:01:44 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=subject:to:cc :references:from:message-id:date:mime-version:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=oBfoO57SMXTI nyS2OOWCKou9p2Y=; b=B7qLihw42beJAenZZx655ijw5immiRbnxSwsF03QGg4P bvXNZqIO6deXUYoN4Ao12ItLNWzDB6P1oguopWfOR52Oe6AAxqWba1qU8ZktKLiY 42+gIaeJAA/xjHNh874CXI2ZOC0bzANTZSODCYrYX64/YIyYxBo+Roa3jJfEZW0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=subject:to:cc :references:from:message-id:date:mime-version:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Wl4yTb CFQb3EbAl1EYqIindvx+p+DJq1rxNj/QOgJXvXfUx7kyCHEYvVya0D8TEW25r0fn ahGMCHLo5tOQb+luYLhWDW7cESLUdQ0/aZhyCbhG/M01ovCdC6ZLKeRTPx83w78K +nV0586yPIEgcTWwSnZ+ky8645Pz8fBbi/Z5g= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858D9D3D97; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:01:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.5] (unknown [24.185.115.142]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 09B61D3D96; Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:01:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: 6100 subdirectories in /usr/ports/devel! To: "Dan Mahoney (Gushi)" Cc: FreeBSD ports list References: <20171228203634.GK99670@rancor.immure.com> <5A4557E8.70907@grosbein.net> <5A455A04.4090100@grosbein.net> <20171228211639.GL99670@rancor.immure.com> From: James E Keenan Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:01:43 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 900CB284-1596-11E8-82A8-692D1A68708C-57062903!pb-smtp1.pobox.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:01:51 -0000 On 02/19/2018 11:25 AM, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote: > > Several of the CPAN modules currently around today don't compile cleanly > under FreeBSD, but nobody cares because they just use the package which > has the additional patches. > Do you have a list of those CPAN modules which don't compile cleanly on FreeBSD? Have bug tickets been open for those problems? Speaking as a longtime CPAN contributor and as a recent FreeBSD ports contributor, I'd like to see what can be done to maintain quality in both archives. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan