Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:19:09 +0100 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: "Ardie H. Hwang" <lists@ardiefox.me> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it a discouraged behavior to limit port's target OS version? Message-ID: <6B36AF9B-0CE9-4F0F-B5EE-3AD3770C0DEE@grem.de> In-Reply-To: <1455264999.1350954.519180010.763924B8@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1455264999.1350954.519180010.763924B8@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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> On 12 Feb 2016, at 09:16, Ardie H. Hwang <lists@ardiefox.me> wrote: >=20 > Hi all, > I need an advice or two regarding the problem I met. >=20 > I am preparing a submission of new port, which depends on <iconv.h>: `data= bases/mariadb-connector-c`. > Everything went okay, until Poudriere test in 9.3-RELEASE jail reported bu= ild failure. Apparently <iconv.h> has been added to base system since 10.0-R= ELEASE. >=20 > The question is: this limiting OS version for this port, is this a discour= aged idea? The method I am thinking is to display error if OS version is les= s than 10.x, upon checking OSVERSION makevar in Makefile. But this will disc= riminate against fellow 9.x users. > I have another solution of adding `converters/iconv` (libiconv.so) as this= port's library dependency. However, I am worried that doing this might caus= e problem on 10.x versions. >=20 > Can someone tell me what to do regarding this <iconv.h> on 9.x? Please see: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/using-iconv.html - michael
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