Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:44:48 -0800 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VirtualBox 4.3.6 + FreeBSD 10 + clang, [SUCCESS] Message-ID: <CAG=rPVdaHbk-6tzvK31y3HTWF12QKjBTYaSFwtiueemC%2B%2BUA-A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAE-m3X07N0yHbmEeyOQXsj=xtiMOKAokE4cZDfbddrzMbQa8ug@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG=rPVfzBcRABRBsL-S_42jWuQ3zfgWCZK-%2BoUZZuYN6MrDCZQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAE-m3X07N0yHbmEeyOQXsj=xtiMOKAokE4cZDfbddrzMbQa8ug@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich <decke@bluelife.at>wro= te: > I still think this is the wrong approach and I won't maintain all those > clang patches in the official port. The problem that I see is that we are > diverging from upstream vbox too much and end up maintaining a very speci= al > usecase and a few dozen patches on our own. We would be the only one to > build with clang so with every release we need to update our patches and > add more to keep it building with clang. This will need someone that want= 's > to do it for the next few years. > > Since the beginning of vbox on FreeBSD we tried to stay close to upstream > sources and push patches to upstream first. This has worked good for us a= nd > has created a good relationship to them. > > So we have 3 options: > > - I step down and wish you all the best. There are a few smart people > working on vbox now so it should not be an issue for the project. > > - Someone clones the vbox ports and maintains the clang version in the > portstree. > > - We try to push as many patches upstream and nag them until they accept > them. This might also interest some Mac OS X people. > > I will talk to the vbox developers to find out what they think of clang > and if someone is working on updating the recompiler from qemu which woul= d > make a full clang build possible. > Well I hope that you don't have to leave the maintainership of the port. VirtualBox has a lot of dependencies, and it is very hard to keep everything on track and working, so I appreciate your efforts. I hope that VirtualBox upstream can accept our patches. -- Craig
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