Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:55:28 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> Cc: Charlie Li <vishwin@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 25e6f68a6661 - main - textproc/libxml2: Update to 2.11.6 Message-ID: <ZaLOkB6fmooRjWXF@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CALH631keLuwEchvHA8OWuHy_LiWsodJi8VL5NN-L5p1WYsKGwA@mail.gmail.com> References: <202401121705.40CH5JhG014492@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <ZaIcEvYZ2Yq_jW9Z@FreeBSD.org> <CALH631=meexWeEvPY4dBsVviAEms9OfcmKTk-YHGfw4fHJCzSw@mail.gmail.com> <a228d839c5a29d9991b72f1e0664da04@mail.infomaniak.com> <02ebab1b-a763-45e4-9380-0d82c83c22a4@freebsd.org> <CALH631keLuwEchvHA8OWuHy_LiWsodJi8VL5NN-L5p1WYsKGwA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 08:21:15PM +0300, Gleb Popov wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 4:37???PM Charlie Li wrote: > > Until upstream specifically declares and recommends CMake as ready > > for Unix-like systems in at least their documentation, nothing else > > is relevant. > > What makes you so categorical about it? Recommendations are, well, > recommendations. The upstream might even recommend nothing but Linux. As it had been explained on multiple occasions, as long as there is autotools-based build available, it should be always preferred over CMake due to much longer dependency chain the latter entails; I recall how hard I had to fight this when bringing up ppc32 jail, for instance. But then again, all of this does not matter as there was an elaborate comment in the Makefile and repeatedly stated, unequivocal objection from invested committer. ./danfe
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