Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:17:08 -0700 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [UPDATE] Re: Update on ports on 10.0 Message-ID: <20111018161708.6391de26.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20111018223146.GA93539@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20111011063602.GO68552@droso.net> <20111017153551.23281532@tetcu.info> <20111017135130.d9caa4f1.stas@FreeBSD.org> <20111018223146.GA93539@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:31:46 +1100 Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> mentioned: > [trimming cc list] > > On 2011-Oct-17 13:51:30 -0700, Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >ones (like GCC). So why not commit that patch as a KNOB to bsd.port.mk like > >it was initially proposed and let people use it in individual ports makefiles > >to fix them (and portmgr@ can commit the initial bunch of these knobs)? This > >is the easiest thing you can do now, and you will be able to abandon it when > >the better solution is available (which is unlikely). > > Once hackish work-arounds get committed, it is extremely difficult to > root them out. The last time the project included a temporary hack to > assist with a similar problem (the aout to ELF migration in FreeBSD > 3), it took more than a decade to get the hack out of base and after > 13 years, there are still 71 ports (by my count) with local work-arounds. > Peter, I would agree with you, but in this case there's no non-hackish workaround available. The broken libtool is embedded withing the applications configure script and there's nothing we can do about it except patching it. Waiting a decade until they're fixed is not an option. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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