Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 19:37:55 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: nils@guru.ims.uni-stuttgart.de Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports/lang/gnat Message-ID: <199506091737.TAA26161@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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The porter of gnat writes: > you need a gnat compiler to compile the gnat compiler. so I suggest we remove SUBDIR += gnat from ports/lang/Makefile as every new host starting with an empty .../bin that tries to do cd /usr/ports ; make seems bound to fail. I suggest we add to ports/lang/gnat/Makefile MAINTAINER= orphan # not nils@guru.ims.uni-stuttgart.de unless of course we can persuade him to assume maintenance ? Just so nils doen't misinterpret this, removing SUBDIR += does not suggest anything drastic like port removal, It's just that if the Makefile doesn't support recursive descent from above, we shouldn't call it, else the make of entire ports tree of 280 ports will break. When nils or ports master or a user fixes this with an ncftp pre fetch around the extract target, + adds an EXEC_DEPENDS= &/or LIB_DEPENDS= in the Makefile, then we could re-enable SUBDIR += in the Makefile above. PS I'm not interested in fixing gnat, (I didn't know what it was, & had never used it, my only interest is that it breaks "cd /usr/ports ; make", PPS maybe we should toss a copy of ftp.ims.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/unix/FreeBSD/gnat-2.03-FreeBSD-2.0.tar.gz on ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/pub/incoming/experimental/ ready for that 2nd cd ? FYI Here is the nils's response to my recent bug report ------- Forwarded Message > Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 00:51:00 +0200 > From: nils@guru.ims.uni-stuttgart.de (Cornelis van der Laan) > To: jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de > Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports/lang/gnat > > As this was 1) taken out of my hands from people at berkeley > and cdrom.com, and 2) stated in the makefile, there's nothing > left to do than leave you with a _working_ port and the under- > standing that the lines in the Makefile > > # You need a compiler which calls an existing gnat compiler: > CC = gcc-2.6.3 > > mean that you need a gnat compiler to compile the gnat compiler. > period. A binary distribution of gnat can be found in > ftp.ims.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/unix/FreeBSD/gnat-2.03-FreeBSD-2.0.tar.gz > > Best regards, Nils > > PS: no, I'm not pissed but when people have problems they don't > even bother to look what the problem really is. They keep saying > 'Here's a problem, it's broken, please do something asap'. > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > Julian S jhs@freebsd.org
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