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Date:      Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:55:21 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        bra@fsn.hu, kde@freebsd.org, flz@freebsd.org, gecko@freebsd.org, cy@freebsd.org, ashish@freebsd.org, ale@freebsd.org, yds@coolrat.org, ler@lerctr.org, gnome@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, office@freebsd.org, gerald@freebsd.org, mi@aldan.algebra.com, ehaupt@freebsd.org, python@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [linimon@FreeBSD.org: ports/170946: [patch] mark certain ports broken on ARM]
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On 25 August 2012 11:27, Mikhail T. <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
> On 23.08.2012 21:47, Eitan Adler wrote:
>
> NOT and ONLY are meant for ports which by definition will never work
> another arch (think x86info).  In this case the ports are just broken.
>
> That's a fine distinction, that makes little sense to me -- the total number
> of ports, which can not ever work on some architecture is, probably, a
> couple dozen... It is also not mentioned in the Handbook at all:

The reason for the distinction is the existence of the -DTRYBROKEN
flag. In theory, an exp run is done with -DTRYBROKEN every so often.
*FOR_ARCH is not tested when this happens.

-- 
Eitan Adler



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