From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 7 9:13:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFECC37BA89; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:13:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@[209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA76741; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:13:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA55384; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:14:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:14:05 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Ade Lovett Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: patches/ handling Message-ID: <20000607091405.A55268@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20000605184259.A21736@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000606210209.B20037@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000607090533.D44242@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000607090533.D44242@FreeBSD.org>; from ade@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:05:34AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:05:34AM -0500, Ade Lovett wrote: > This will work fine for source patches.. I'm just wondering if there > are any other cases where we might have to patch other things > (like "portable" configure scripts) differently depending on > architecture. I hand you ``uname -m'' and case/esac. :-) > If not, then IMHO, the whole patches.*/ thing is significantly > over-engineered at the moment - of course, if we start increasing > the number of FreeBSD platforms (IA64 and some parts of Sparc being > the next logical contenders), we may have to revisit this. I VERY much agree with you. I believe the separate arch patch path will be a maintenance nightmare. > -aDe [still trying to locate a <$1k Alpha for ports checking, > enquire within.. :)] Others interested in such things please let me know. I've got some leads on identifiying sources of such things. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message