From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 12 02:44:51 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22DA0D44; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 02:44:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x235.google.com (mail-la0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42D461A9F; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 02:44:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f53.google.com with SMTP id e16so1467242lan.26 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:44:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=AYpc0g6eXrrsUQUZRShct52S5m0Cd96YurrKQKY4BEw=; b=A7MglqmDqJW0ZWH7+IROfHY2qINHXQpKSF4v8gcxztTUB4tyPgWqtdk3xLFzHFcaCQ 6v94CskAu9ML4zX4wrFr2Lkb4g+m8TFPc5qc93YKh1qG4Cg0WK6eYqnfFQZRWNweFWv5 GfHK446m6E2eLlijJJEn8D0xtUarAE1VkyhKOtF2VIuHkCJOoMzCFVq0hCzELSbct7uJ 0W3dU7JmcavNIxYek668iv+9WRU0dcz57VbHoYB4UAFHizjeiWPWxOhw0sddoPR4j9lJ IhIWGABbNHdJrdhH/r3Jz2MyPlyAQSiPqj7NDvSR9VPQVvtsPxU522NKCDK3Rwirf1qM sv8A== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.2.5 with SMTP id 5mr7217453laq.21.1389494688118; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:44:48 -0800 (PST) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.38.43 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:44:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:44:48 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dE97890hqtH7Rd6CvMOF5zjG2LU Message-ID: Subject: Re: VirtualBox 4.3.6 + FreeBSD 10 + clang, [SUCCESS] From: Craig Rodrigues To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, ports , Jung-uk Kim X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 02:44:51 -0000 On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich wro= te: > I still think this is the wrong approach and I won't maintain all those > clang patches in the official port. The problem that I see is that we are > diverging from upstream vbox too much and end up maintaining a very speci= al > usecase and a few dozen patches on our own. We would be the only one to > build with clang so with every release we need to update our patches and > add more to keep it building with clang. This will need someone that want= 's > to do it for the next few years. > > Since the beginning of vbox on FreeBSD we tried to stay close to upstream > sources and push patches to upstream first. This has worked good for us a= nd > has created a good relationship to them. > > So we have 3 options: > > - I step down and wish you all the best. There are a few smart people > working on vbox now so it should not be an issue for the project. > > - Someone clones the vbox ports and maintains the clang version in the > portstree. > > - We try to push as many patches upstream and nag them until they accept > them. This might also interest some Mac OS X people. > > I will talk to the vbox developers to find out what they think of clang > and if someone is working on updating the recompiler from qemu which woul= d > make a full clang build possible. > Well I hope that you don't have to leave the maintainership of the port. VirtualBox has a lot of dependencies, and it is very hard to keep everything on track and working, so I appreciate your efforts. I hope that VirtualBox upstream can accept our patches. -- Craig