From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 7 22:12:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED24716A501 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 22:12:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2140813C44C for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 22:12:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 27243 invoked by uid 399); 7 Jan 2007 22:12:35 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jan 2007 22:12:35 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <45A17051.8080907@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:12:33 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.freebsd.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061215) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, novel@FreeBSD.org References: <20070107145601.GA24504@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20070107145601.GA24504@saturn.kn-bremen.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: gnutls (and all that kde stuff...) and 4.x's old gcc X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:12:37 -0000 Juergen Lock wrote: > (Not sure it still really matters given 4's eol date, but...) > > Yesterday evening I tinderboxed lang/gambas for 4.11 (thinking that > it was a compiler :) and it failed with C++ compiler errors in > libgnutlsxx in security/gnutls. I looked around in /usr/local/bin > and /usr/X11R6/bin and it seemed nothing was using it, so I put > USE_GCC= 3.4 > in the port's Makefile, which made it build. Soo, should libgnutlsxx > just be removed from the build on 4, or should gnutls and everything > that depends on it (which seems to be all that kde stuff at least) > be given USE_GCC for 4? Or should gnutls simply be IGNOREd on 4 > since probably noone that still uses that wants to run kde anyway... ... or, the problem can be ignored at layer 9, since ports are no longer required to support 4.x, and its EOL is only 24 blessed days away. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection