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Subject: ports/14288: Kill palm/prc-tools
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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.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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