Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:32:02 +0100 From: Torbjorn Granlund <tege@gmplib.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice about /usr/ports/math/gmp Message-ID: <86ppo4qb7x.fsf@shell.gmplib.org> In-Reply-To: <52CB765E.1050309@marino.st> (John Marino's message of "Tue\, 07 Jan 2014 04\:37\:02 %2B0100") References: <20140107010206.00003d43@unknown> <52CB6250.3030009@marino.st> <20140107042527.00002e37@unknown> <52CB765E.1050309@marino.st>
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I duly regret to have tried to save some time for the gmp ports maintainer. I am slapping my trollish hands! (I even mispellt a word, gasp!) By all means, try upgrading, run into clang bugs and m4 bugs. (The limits.h bugs won't happen for ports builds, only for plain compiles by end users.) The m4 bug has been around for a long time, no *release* is unaffected. I have been told 9-STABLE has it fixed. I know the imminent 10 has it fixed. Newer ports is supposed to work on older systems, right? Last time I tried (recently) clang had some bug(s) (neither of which fully isolated nor reported). How can I be sure it is a compiler bug? Why didn't I report it? I am sure it is a bug in clang, did enough to check that. I didn't report it because I used a lot of time for my latest fbsd bug report (amd64/183397), and 10 is shipping with it. I have been with FreeBSD since 1.1. It has been my main development platform for GNU work ever since. In the last period, I have been unlucky enough to see a mounting number of show-stopper problems with FreeBSD. I don't recognise my beloved FreeBSD, nor do I recognise its community! I will have nothing more to say about this. Scream and shout about this reply if you feel inspired, but please cut me out from that. If I--privately or via the appropriate gmp list--sometimes in the future get a reasonably polite inquiry about integrating GMP 5.2.x into FreeBSD's ports, I will repeat my advise (!) but I or some other GMP hacker will certainly make an effort trying to help if the ports hacker insists in doing the integration. Bye, bye.
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