From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Jun 10 06:49:04 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279DDD86647 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 06:49:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.73.225]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com", Issuer "dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06A3D6A24B for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 06:49:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from [74.134.208.22] ([74.134.208.22:21611] helo=localhost) by dnvrco-omsmta03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id 94/A1-01815-8569B395; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 06:48:56 +0000 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 06:48:54 +0000 Message-ID: <94.A1.01815.8569B395@dnvrco-omsmta03> From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bapt@ back on portmgr References: <76529ffe-b3c7-fb02-d92e-11e29571a46e@freebsd.org> <32.C1.01815.DF92A395@dnvrco-omsmta03> X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.88:25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 06:49:04 -0000 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