Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 23:02:28 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: rkoberman@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of portupgrade and portmaster? Message-ID: <20171001040228.GC27224@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <201709301930.v8UJUERE025933@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <CAN6yY1ukz_gn3Ny4J52qoq0KjGmvDxLEZrBenXPA7o-YC%2BHSyg@mail.gmail.com> <201709301930.v8UJUERE025933@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 12:30:14PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote: > it illustrates the problem of synth being the only real > consumer of the ADA toolchain (which John also maintained) > on FreeBSD. It's only fair to point out that John did a great deal of work on Ada on FreeBSD. However ... > Another issue is that synth is only available on x86 because that > is what the toolchain limits it to This, to me, is what always stuck in my craw. I think John may have done some work on Ada on armv6 and/or aarch64 but I would have to go check to be sure. There is a _possibility_ that with sufficient effort it could be made to work there. But AFAICT there was never any realistic chance it could work on mips, powerpc, or sparc64. Now, you might claim those aren't deal-breakers, but IMVHO not having it working on both armv6 and aarch64, at production quality, *is* one -- those two need to be first-class citizens going forward (e.g. for 12.0). mcl
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