Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:19:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lang/gcc42 on alpha Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.10.0807201009280.8835@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20080708091924.GA9171@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20080708091924.GA9171@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Hi Anton, On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I've been using lang/gcc42 on alpha for more than a year now. > My calculation shows that the port was updated 25 times during > last year. Each time I upgraded the port with no problem, except > for as failure, which happens on my i386 just the same: thanks for the report. This is the first feedback I got during the more than three years that we have had NOT_FOR_ARCHS=alpha for the newer lang/gcc ports. > Accordingly I wonder why lang/gcc42 is still marked > NOT_FOR_ARCHS= alpha > > Are there other alpha users who have trouble with this port? The original reports that triggered this change came from the FreeBSD Ports Build Cluster. I did some archeology, and here is what I had sent to a member of the portmgr team back than in response, which resulted in the suggestion to use NOT_FOR_ARCHS: I just wasted a couple of ours bringing sparc64 back to bootstrap-land for GCC 4.0 and GCC 4.1 because *nobody*, not a single FreeBSD developer or user apparently tried to build either for many moons. And now the same is starting for alpha; isn't that a waste of our time, for the sake of one or two enthusiasts? I'm fine giving it a try and remove NOT_FOR_ARCHS=alpha for lang/gcc42. If there are problems with it, I may ask you for help or put this back in, though. ;-) > [I] can put NOT_FOR_ARCHS= '' in my make.conf and avoid having to edit > the Makefile each upgrade. Shouldn't "cvs update" handle this gracefully and keep the change while merging in the other updates? Gerald -- Gerald (Jerry) Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/
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