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Date:      Sun, 05 Aug 2012 01:54:00 +0200
From:      Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Koop Mast <kwm@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r302037 - in head: . Mk astro/boinc-astropulse astro/boinc-setiathome-enhanced astro/celestia astro/nightfall astro/openuniverse audio/fmit biology/molden biology/protomol biology/pymol...
Message-ID:  <501DB618.7000806@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <501DB428.3010703@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201208042252.q74Mq4YV007021@svn.freebsd.org> <501DB428.3010703@FreeBSD.org>

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On 08/05/12 01:45, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 08/04/2012 15:52, Koop Mast wrote:
>> Switch from libglut to freeglut and retire libglut.
>
> Thank you for working on this, just one point of concern so far. The
> pkg-message for freeglut:
>
> Since FreeBSD has new USB stack, freeglut normally doesn't build on
> FreeBSD 8
> (yet). To workaround this I created small, ugly patch. this patch adds one
> include file and comments out content of one function (only leaves
> return NULL).
>
> I have no idea what kind of side effects this can cause. Joystick wont work.
> There might be ports that won't compile, or apps that may crash because of
> this. I don't know.
>
> If you face any problems delete this port and install graphics/libglut.

This message needs to be fixed, especially the part about pointing to 
graphics/libglut.  We did a full exp run as part of this, and fixed all 
ports that failed to build as part of this (with one exception, noted in 
the commit message).  However, there might be problems with the usb code 
as stated above (it is very hard to cover all corner cases).  On the 
other hand, I doubt libglut has better support for USB, since libglut 
hasn't been touched in years.
Regards!
-- 
Niclas Zeising



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