From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 31 13:05:54 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FA659B for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:05:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from s.montgomerysmith@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x234.google.com (mail-ob0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1199E2AEC for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f180.google.com with SMTP id wo20so2996883obc.11 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 06:05:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=f46YQVCJUOiFHf2eIAwFKf1mx8uyN8dyGZAy45IAR1s=; b=E0iSDFsQ0+N1HTbZoGgzYIu1R2iJE9YKLFXuD7JAzIOZT1HlKW66DsPMwhoKS0TpTa TA87DRx/InsZ+IkqPIDVQGQ2xWnDX71OHswZXNE/LxBo0xINNPS9YNTGhSixhYHojN1K PJtdfjKFoYX5WGuZ15aUlNiMdLRHPXn/Y5lan5ufR9p2v46LRyC8dufQ+3lWdQ0/41Kj Q3JllyB8JgHph2Utv27RcRrmQI+J9o9WRQgq0xKkN1ZPewalqKD98QT+CTc6+kJ+AFhd Vw6kg0r9QlYVD678pWVXfHCVh0z8JMIDZ0I9OM7FkKMVrIBnJaSsDAXYysjaJ9K7X9aO dDfw== X-Received: by 10.182.125.65 with SMTP id mo1mr2634106obb.40.1383224753368; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 06:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [161.130.253.67] ([161.130.253.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r3sm6557120oep.2.2013.10.31.06.05.51 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 31 Oct 2013 06:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Message-ID: <527255AE.5060809@missouri.edu> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:05:50 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Laurie , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding abandoned ports References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:05:54 -0000 On 10/30/2013 09:02 AM, Alex Laurie wrote: > Hello all, > > Only really just getting into FreeBSD but I am inspired to help out. I'm > not a developer or anything. However I do like to install and update > things. I though one area I may be able to help out is in the ports side of > things. I have been through the Porters handbook and thought I would try > updating some out of date ports to cut my teeth so to speak. Looking around > I don't seem to see anywhere with abandoned ports that need some love. > If you are running FreeBSD version 10 or higher, I have a couple of ports that don't build: cad/gmsh-occ and math/GiNaC. I am still running FreeBSD 8 where these build problems don't occur. If you could fix these for me, I would be very grateful, because the rest of my life (work and family) is really occupying a lot of my time right now. But only if you would enjoy doing this - I will probably get to it eventually, but just not yet. Thanks, Stephen