Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 12:00:14 -0700 From: Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> To: adamw@adamw.org, rkoberman@gmail.com Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: The future of portmaster [and of ports-mgmt/synth] Message-ID: <589B133C-0175-4DD2-8847-5A3E0E697B36@dsl-only.net>
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Adam Weinberger adamw at adamw.org wrote on Tue May 30 14:00:21 UTC 2017: > poudriere and synth are actively developed Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com wrote on Tue May 30 16:52:19 UTC 2017 > I really suggest that you look at synth. ports-mgmt/synth depends on lang/gcc6-aux which has lost its maintainer --and is broken for FreeBSD head after the ino64 changes. (synth was written in ada --which is not directly available from the normal lang/gcc* 's.) This broken status includes amd64 now. (The lang/gcc6-aux maintainer was also the author/creator.) A similar status happened for ports-mgmt/synth relative to its newly claimed aarch64 support: lang/gcc6-aux turned out to be broken such that it would not build on aarch64, which in turn stopped ports-mgmt/synth builds. . . ports-mgmt/synth -r437524 (Sun Apr 2) reported: > ports-mgmt/synth: update 1.68 -> 1.69 > > - FreeBSD/ARM* support but by the time I tried I could not build it because I could not build lang/gcc6-aux on a Pine64+ 2GB: head's system headers vs. gcc munging of copies them were no longer matched in the bootstrap process that lang/gcc6-aux uses. This is still true even without progressing to the ino64 changes in FreeBSD's head (12-CURRENT). Unfortunately ports-mgmt/synth suffers from build prerequisites that do not have a wide range of contributing maintainers or otherwise broad support. This looks like it will make ports-mgmt/synth problematical as things are. === Mark Millard markmi at dsl-only.net
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