Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:04:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dropping compiler support in -current Message-ID: <15232.28747.720718.859688@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010817235549.A86990@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <sb7d6abe.015@mail.baerum.kommune.no> <20010817235549.A86990@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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Christian Weisgerber writes: > Idar Tollefsen: > > > Speaking of which... If a port is broken, and it probably is > > Alpha specific, what is a good way of dealing with it, short > > of fixing it yourself? > > Good question. > > You can report it to the maintainer, who'll probably shrug and point > out that he doesn't have an alpha. You can submit a PR, which will > probably be ignored since nobody feels responsible. You can report > the problem on freebsd-ports, where it will be lost under the deluge > of new ports and update submissions. You can send it to this list, > where people will probably consider it off topic, since it's a ports > problem. > FWIW, maintainers are usually willing to take a patch... But I do feel your pain. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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