Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:35:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rawio 1.1 on FreeBSD 4.2-BETA? Message-ID: <20001127113510.C27697@echunga.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20001119084324.C39683@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 08:43:24AM -0800 References: <v04220802b63c41d62a7a@[10.0.1.2]> <20001119151418.K52433@echunga.lemis.com> <20001119084324.C39683@dragon.nuxi.com>
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[addressed to David O'Brien, who prefers not to have his name on the To: line] On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 8:43:24 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:14:19PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 18 November 2000 at 15:37:39 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: >>> Greg, >>> >>> I'm not sure if you've heard complaints about this lately, but I >>> thought I'd drop you a line and see if you had any ideas what I might >>> be doing wrong. I did some searches of the archives for -questions, >>> -stable, and -current, and couldn't find anything that related to >>> "rawio AND random.h". >> >> There is a PR. I'm not sure under what circumstances it fails. > > http://bento.FreeBSD.org/errorlogs/4-full/ shows `rawio' isn't buildable > and won't be offered in package form in 4.2-RELEASE. One of the > responsibilities of a port's maintainer is to check and make sure the > port is buildable by checking this URL right before a release. First I've heard of it. Where is this documented? > When I passed maintainership over to you I did expect you would keep > the port buildable... When you passed maintainership over to me, I did expect you would have told me if it were not buildable. I was also rather surprised that you created patches rather than giving me feedback. The problem here is that your patch refers machine/random.h, which is not present in the base binary distribution. You should have used sys/random.h. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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