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Date:      Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:38:57 +0400
From:      arrowdodger <6yearold@gmail.com>
To:        Igor Soumenkov <2igosha@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to escalate? ports/159276 - cmake
Message-ID:  <CALH631kYZ9W6EPWvfVAZs6ks3-oQXMwC%2BJ2tymZ4ACD=JDjZ8A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E58A6AA.4060805@soumenkov.com>
References:  <4E58A6AA.4060805@soumenkov.com>

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On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Igor Soumenkov <2igosha@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> How can I escalate the issue related to one of the ports?
> Cmake in ports sets different cflags than the original one. It seems
> that the comitter who introduced this problem with a patch
> (
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/cmake/files/patch-Modules_Compiler_GNU.cmake?rev=1.1
> )
> to the port does not want to do anything with it. There is a PR open
> (159276).
> Cmake is widely used in the company I am working for, and now as a
> FreeBSD user I get cmake that is different from everyone else's, because
> my default Debug and Release build have empty CFLAGS. Now I have to
> manually fix these flags back each time I reconfigure my build directories.
>
> If nobody cares about this, why not place a big 'we don't care about
> developers' banner on the main site?
>
> --
> Igor Soumenkov
>
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:38:44 +0400, igor wrote:
> >> It a usual practice to close duplicated reports. The patch in
> >> question was
> >> added for some reasons and we can't just remove it, until we find better
> >> solution.
> >
> > The patch altered the way original cmake behaves. It all worked very
> > well until someone added this patch. It works well in Debian, for
> > example.
> > This makes it very inconvenient to use cmake from ports for software
> > development.
>
>
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I'm suffering from this problem too.



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