Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 06:48:54 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bapt@ back on portmgr Message-ID: <94.A1.01815.8569B395@dnvrco-omsmta03> References: <76529ffe-b3c7-fb02-d92e-11e29571a46e@freebsd.org> <32.C1.01815.DF92A395@dnvrco-omsmta03> <ca1f1113-ef6d-97dd-1c89-8f173728254c@FreeBSD.org>
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from Matthew Seaman and my previous post:
> > But what is happening with synth, supposed to make portupgrade and
> > portmaster obsolete?
> Synth is still being actively developed but the author is now working
> primarily on DFly. There is a new maintainer for the synth port who
> will be porting the latest updates to FreeBSD, much like almost any
> other piece of software in the ports.
> At the moment there is a problem with synth on recent FreeBSD HEAD due
> to not having a working ada compiler. This will be solved eventually as
> the bugs in various toolchains get worked out.
My understanding is that the trouble is related to the change to 64-bit inodes on FreeBSD HEAD.
lang/gcc5-aux and gcc6-aux won't build.
How are users supposed to know if and when this is fixed?
I looked in Makefile for ports-mgmt/synth and lang/gcc6-aux and gcc5-aux, and there was no indication of anything amiss.
There ought to be a BROKEN notice in the Makefile to save users from the exercise in frustration.
For now, I am not doing anything on FreeBSD HEAD; updating 11.1-PRERELEASE (stable branch) instead.
Tom
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