From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Aug 19 19: 5:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84ED537B405 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 19:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA19677; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:05:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f7K24xT27393; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:04:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15232.28747.720718.859688@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:04:59 -0400 (EDT) To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dropping compiler support in -current In-Reply-To: <20010817235549.A86990@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20010817235549.A86990@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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