From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 11:46:24 2012 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 C988E106566B; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:46:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (pancho.soaustin.net [76.74.250.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A5F8FC12; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:46:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 32C5D56205; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:46:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:46:24 -0500 From: Mark Linimon To: Erwin Lansing Message-ID: <20120410114624.GA2456@lonesome.com> References: <4F83F893.7040500@FreeBSD.org> <20120410091619.GS66606@droso.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120410091619.GS66606@droso.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .if ARCH / BROKEN, or 'NOT_FOR_ARCH'? 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: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:46:24 -0000 On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:16:19AM +0200, Erwin Lansing wrote: > BROKEN is for less permanent or unknown breakage, like errors on pointyhat > where the one analyzing the logs doesn't have detailed knownledge of each > port and its breakage, and is used as a warning to users, so they don't try > to build a port and get disappointed after installing all its dependencies, > and as a message to the maintainer that something is wrong. As a further clarification, we have a switch that we can throw on pointyhat to try to build things with BROKEN: '-trybroken'. We don't often do this, but should probably start doing so more often now that we have the hardware. Once something is marked with ARCHS it will not be attempted on pointyhat no matter what. mcl