From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 12:56:06 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 207496F8 for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 12:56:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-relay36-dus.antispameurope.com (mx-relay36-dus.antispameurope.com [94.100.134.236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 833FE24DD for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 12:56:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpsrv2.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([195.37.77.176]) by mx-gate36-dus.antispameurope.com; Wed, 21 May 2014 14:55:49 +0200 Received: from CURIE.fokus.fraunhofer.de (curie.fokus.fraunhofer.de [IPv6:2001:638:806:9::203] (may be forged)) by smtpsrv2.fokus.fraunhofer.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s4LCtlks020968 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 14:55:47 +0200 Received: from rigel (10.147.13.100) by CURIE.fokus.fraunhofer.de (10.147.9.203) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.181.6; Wed, 21 May 2014 14:55:47 +0200 Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 14:55:47 +0200 From: Joerg Schilling To: Subject: Disappearing programs: Is FreeBSD ports unmaintained? Message-ID: <537ca253.L5UAU8FjzLGouZBI%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> User-Agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KSE-Antivirus-Interceptor-Info: protection disabled X-cloud-security-sender: joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de X-cloud-security-recipient: ports@freebsd.org X-cloud-security-Virusscan: CLEAN X-cloud-security-disclaimer: This E-Mail was scanned by E-Mailservice on mx-gate36-dus with BA3D5211800B X-cloud-security-connect: smtpsrv2.fokus.fraunhofer.de[195.37.77.176], TLS=, IP=195.37.77.176 X-cloud-security: scantime:.1235 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 12:56:06 -0000 Hi, the programs star and smake seem to have disappeared from the FreeBSD ports collection. The supposed reason is: "no longer compiles".... but it seems that the real reason is that somebody did modify the build system in a way that harms portability and this way caused a FreeBSD change (introducing the compiler "clang" that causes compatibilty problems) to be the reason for a package that no longer compiles. Isn't it obvious to check more recent version of the sources and to check whether _unmodified_ sources compile before removing software from the collection? Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily