Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 10:23:05 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Dan Trainor <dan@ript.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of the ports collection Message-ID: <20020604152304.GD69850@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <004e01c20bd9$46077da0$0a00a8c0@broken> References: <20020604134220.B42142@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <004e01c20bd9$46077da0$0a00a8c0@broken>
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In the last episode (Jun 04), Dan Trainor said: > What's going to happen to all these ports that still depend on file > locations in the 4.5 release(s)? The reason I ask is that I see that > now we're going to have to make two kinds of ports - one for 4.x and > one for 5.x, or are header files and stuff like that stored as global > variables... or something. Kris Kennaway talked a bit about moving > specific headers (and possibly more) to different locations: > > :: * (>27 ports) The <machine/soundcard.h> header was moved, breaking The move from machine/soundcard.h to sys/soundcard.h was done in 1999 as part of the move from 3.* to 4.0. All 4.* systems have sys/soundcard.h, and that's where ports should be looking. > :: * (>35 ports) Something caused sys_nerr to change prototypes. It > looks like this might be because the definition of __const from > <sys/ctypes.h> has changed, but I can't see why. See for > example This is an error that gcc 2.95 never caught that gcc 3 does. Ports should not use sys_nerr at all, and should use strerror(). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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