From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 18:19:51 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280B2106564A; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:19:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBF78FC12; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:19:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr11 with SMTP id dr11so11861565wgb.31 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:19:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=J1XC5F3MVf0yWNpzUjV9ZKVU0i01VmTRDwyUaQaDKgs=; b=g/thFlkqMp/yJhWMy9a2w/KIEmdJe9pv5ILU6Zwlt8585xZv7NWvc0QQCY5IBl11xz gLnJBROX/QDQiTnDA+r8j9QpZA7aO0YHzi6DHfLot7/1rfeFB1tFViXnlGSjmxev+Orq SPQC0O3vdBSHZ/QJF7DtqiykKJ5FlVqVmPMto= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.204.66 with SMTP id fl2mr1890010wbb.16.1323713988262; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:19:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.92.152 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:19:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111212181153.GB76159@bonjour.sunpoet.net> References: <20111212173616.GA85305@DataIX.net> <20111212181153.GB76159@bonjour.sunpoet.net> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:19:48 -0800 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: ports@freebsd.org, gerald@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lang/gcc46 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:19:51 -0000 On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:03:14AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jason Hellenthal wro= te: >> > >> > Hi Gerald, >> > >> > As a request once again similiar to one I have made in the past... Wou= ld it be possible yet to slow down the update process for the gcc46 port ? >> > >> > This is turning out to be quite the pain in the U-Know-What with versi= on flapping and rebuilding because a port depends on it. If I am correct it= is updated weekly. I caught the tail end of the previous update and the da= y after it was bumped to the next snapshot version & by the time both of th= ose were finished the port had once again been bumped to _1. >> > >> > Is there anything that could be done to stabalize this ... ? >> > >> > At this point I am left for the manual intervention of using +IGNOREME= files or excluding by whatever means neccesary as weekly updates seem comp= letely unneccesary now that alot of ports are shifting to depend on gcc46. >> > >> > Can a gcc46-devel port be branched for those that absolutely need the = weekly updates ? >> +1 >> >> gcc46 is used by so many ports that I am continually re-building it >> and on slow machines, this takes a while. How about a gcc46-devel port >> that gets the regular updates and let gcc46 stay stable when there are >> not major fixes? > > We have lang/gcc already. This port is created for perferred gcc releases > (4.6.2 currently). What we're waiting for is a bsd.gcc.mk update to allow > users build ports with lang/gcc instead of lang/gcc46. Ahh. I see the issue. I have not looked at bsd.gcc.mk, but it does not seem like this should be too difficult. Just a matter of the right person having the time. Would ports specifying gcc46 need to be touched? --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com