Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:18:24 +0000 From: freebsd-ports@coreland.ath.cx To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, eischen@vigrid.com, ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org Subject: Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system Message-ID: <20091108201824.GB9691@logik.internal.network> In-Reply-To: <20091108040636.GC18823@lonesome.com> References: <20091107212936.GB85348@logik.internal.network> <20091108040636.GC18823@lonesome.com>
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--qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On 2009-11-07 22:06:36, Mark Linimon wrote: > > There were several more working, but a recent compiler update broke them. > At that time the portmgr team went ahead and marked the ports "broken". > That both advises users that they don't compile, and also triggers a > periodic email to the ports@ mailing list. Beyond that we have to rely > on work done by individual contributors. Seems reasonable. > Most of the general mechanisms for selecting "port alternative foo vs. > bar" live in ports/Mk. In particular, you will probably want to look at > ports/Mk/bsd.gcc.mk. A more advanced example is in bsd.java.mk. Note: > don't feel bad if you don't understand the contents of these files; they > have evolved to their current state over quite some period of time. It's > perfectly fair to ask for help. It's on the list. Thanks! > For something like this that isn't widely used, I wouldn't spend too much > time on anything other than i386 and amd64. That's where the majority of > our user base is (I'm guessing 80% and 15%, respectively, based on the PR > arrival statistics.) That's good to know. I don't have any sparc64 machines laying around... M --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJK9yePAAoJEPTzS0RVNS+GxmAP+gPlM7xw3O/Ta/P79Y3wh/Gg 5dBk4BwvtWpnZqCf69T/6Odge6//CCjPakPTzSRZMpxrfUDao8AmldNh7tZq4709 EIbDMMsEleD6QqSj/CCuM8tn2MWWHH8gFfgC3aAQiMXDz22jCu+09QtyR8wKLDpB cgzNiJOhU+LOCjISw7Pgyo8hZA+Jt8k9+xl9iXXHFpuCQaiazm6BRK/DzjGXrPEA UzYw1vO03FWjKWI2dOu2vRbKeXYzb7MYlwXbXbBjzeuqnAVXGipqDKMBIEzKWM1X wqIWNO/MOyhYa/Ex1Bw+HN/oaITxF3EcBhOrtrYrqw1xoyics9pqB6XsBB9JRxVh ogYPIVpErDUuWqT82XiJGitCIRCiJhTl8P9X+SZ1Vog63wJQm187aWPlONkygKYp vMXR2lGtr2QBeD3enFp6FrKiQgDxAkHT3FwLT5OMVFXfXD93/iSFvaAEeEDvYkaV IVaI+5qLwUYprS3NMFTNJrrQvlt7lHlaoG0lJsOoCfTCJDPWhr2x1m0GTHDctcqR tcq7XRCuXtuO1TKYVT+W238qswcOStQ3H+DYT7103Tabw/jQb3qupn1XveVJ3mhJ EXHsKJ0+aPh7aTvvcBQUfV1d5RsBZPOI+ol63ICpOATG0QF9OBXu4T12lQDDqRBn +A/Od04rJOdb0KTejORu =thVE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB--
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