Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:40:47 -0600 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Subject: Re: with the cvs history? trying to help INDEX builds. Message-ID: <20120121194047.GE4729@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <4F193FD5.8070208@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4F177264.3090708@freebsd.org> <4F17DB1C.6080503@infracaninophile.co.uk> <CADLo83-WtVmyGHM=O4FbTNbDy9h=A1t111bP6eYc%2BTL8-RGmuA@mail.gmail.com> <4F193FD5.8070208@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:20:05AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Actually I take your point, that it should be possible to distinguish > between ports that permanently won't work on some architectures by > design, and ports that temporarily don't work because of mistakes or > broken dependencies or so forth, and that are expected to be fixed > sooner rather than later. A fair amount of effort has gone into trying to distinguish the two cases. I know, because I put in a lot of that effort :-) > Unfortunately those two cases are already pretty confused. - many maintainers don't understand the distinction - some committers don't understand the distinction - some Makefiles predate this technology > ./audio/amarok-kde4/Makefile:NOT_FOR_ARCHS_REASON_sparc64= "GCC-related > build error" > ./audio/openal/Makefile:NOT_FOR_ARCHS_REASON_ia64= does not compile > ./biology/migrate/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS_REASON= Does not compile All 3 are wrong IMVHO. We should fix them. mcl
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