Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 11:58:15 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, re <re@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r331838 - in stable/11: . contrib/compiler-rt/include/sanitizer contrib/compiler-rt/include/xray contrib/compiler-rt/lib/BlocksRuntime contrib/compiler-rt/lib/asan contrib/compiler-rt/l... Message-ID: <f72ddda2-c78f-e31c-d60b-8b3ddc35a4c6@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <EF4245AC-5D9B-44AE-B4A4-B2A9A52FCA1B@FreeBSD.org> References: <201803311138.w2VBcKHP014025@repo.freebsd.org> <CAALwa8mB-FWA%2B_tKXO19x%2B9_CKy6%2B80vxqbKieEXY9fre1ZPdg@mail.gmail.com> <68DEEF9A-6290-40AD-B51D-E187593C089F@FreeBSD.org> <20180331131818.GA22697@lonesome.com> <EF4245AC-5D9B-44AE-B4A4-B2A9A52FCA1B@FreeBSD.org>
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On 03/31/18 11:44, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 31 Mar 2018, at 15:18, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 02:42:01PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: >>> It's been almost 3 months now since clang 6 landed in head, and if >>> those ports require USE_CXXSTD=gnu++98 to be fixed, why haven't those >>> already been changed already? >> Because it takes a lot of time and effort to do it? > I don't want to belittle anyone's work here, but I am very disappointed > that it apparently takes more than 3 months (half the lifecycle of a > complete upstream llvm release!) to fix broken ports. Don't maintainers > read their email, or care about their ports? > I have been receiving emails for 3 months about a port that broke from the clang update and while I care about my ports. I am not running current on the machine where I regularly use that port. It is important but not urgent. Thanks to the update I can now start looking a it. >> This basically torpedoes the work I've been trying to do to catch tier-2 >> up to tier-1, on 11. I had been trying to to identify all the problems >> that existed beforehand, before starting in on the clang6 ones. (Many >> people have also been contributing to fixing clang6/amd64/current errors, >> and I wanted to let the work settle, and not duplicate.) >> >> Finally, if this had gone in just two days later, it would not have >> affected the Q2 package builds. I could have lived with that a lot more >> easily. >> >> I am very disappointed in the timing of this change. > In fact, I thought this was the perfect timing, so that the quarterlies > are built with clang 6, and it has enough time to settle for the 11.2 > slush. If this was merged later, somebody else would probably have > grumbled that I had "merged it just before slush". :) > > -Dimitry > Pedro.
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