Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:30:56 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/14288: Kill palm/prc-tools Message-ID: <E11b4pE-000OKQ-00@anaconda.lovett.com>
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>Number: 14288
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: Kill palm/prc-tools
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Oct 12 09:40:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ade Lovett
>Release: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Lovett Network Consultancy
>Environment:
Up to date ports tree. Distfile survey.
Full pot of ultra-caffeine.
>Description:
Distfile SNAFU. Broken port. No maintainer. Etc..
>How-To-Repeat:
cd palm/prc-tools; make
Looking at the distfile survey for this port also
makes for 'interesting' reading.
>Fix:
Kill it.
Why?
1. prc-tools itself hasn't been updated in almost two years,
and the mailing lists that I found have indicated no
active development for a long while.
2. the port is based around gcc-2.7.2.2, binutils-2.7
and gdb-4.16, all of which have been significantly
hacked about in /usr/src, so the chances of anything
approaching a clean build are effectively zero.
Do you really want to be downloading many Megabloats
of compiler sources for a broken port anyway?
3. The port is currently marked as BROKEN, since it does
all kinds of bad things outside of ${WRKSRC}.
Previously, back in late 1998, it was also marked
BROKEN_ELF -- this got removed after 4 months, but
looking at some of the patches that mentioned shared
libraries with lib<name>.so.<major>.<minor> (a no-no
under ELF), I'd be surprised if it really was
not broken for ELF.
4. Apart from a flurry of activity when the port was
initially committed (in November 1997), no work
(other than break/unbreak/break) has been done on
the port.
5. It currently has no MAINTAINER.
6. Personal opinion: if you really want to develop
for the Palm Pilot, go buy CodeWarrior. It's
relatively cheap, and it even works.
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