From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Tue May 30 19:06:56 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C75BD3B94 for ; Tue, 30 May 2017 19:06:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markmi@dsl-only.net) Received: from asp.reflexion.net (outbound-mail-210-5.reflexion.net [208.70.210.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 638A675685 for ; Tue, 30 May 2017 19:06:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markmi@dsl-only.net) Received: (qmail 31592 invoked from network); 30 May 2017 19:01:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rtc-sm-01.app.dca.reflexion.local) (10.81.150.1) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with SMTP; 30 May 2017 19:01:34 -0000 Received: by rtc-sm-01.app.dca.reflexion.local (Reflexion email security v8.40.0) with SMTP; Tue, 30 May 2017 15:00:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 7814 invoked from network); 30 May 2017 19:00:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iron2.pdx.net) (69.64.224.71) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 30 May 2017 19:00:15 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (c-76-115-7-162.hsd1.or.comcast.net [76.115.7.162]) by iron2.pdx.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9E2F3EC7B76; Tue, 30 May 2017 12:00:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Millard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: RE: The future of portmaster [and of ports-mgmt/synth] Message-Id: <589B133C-0175-4DD2-8847-5A3E0E697B36@dsl-only.net> Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 12:00:14 -0700 Cc: FreeBSD Ports To: adamw@adamw.org, rkoberman@gmail.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 19:06:56 -0000 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