Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:15:35 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Are ports supposed to build and run on 10-CURRENT? Message-ID: <20130613031535.4087d7f9@bsd64.grem.de>
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Hi, I've been waiting for http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=179233 to get committed for a little while now. The person looking at it today decided to test it on 10-CURRENT, which failed (it built, but unit tests fail with all kinds of bus errors on exit). It's not entirely clear what the issue is, but since Ice is a very complex port there are many possible reasons why it might fail. I *did* test the port thoroughly and successfully on current RELEASE versions in various combinations though: - system gcc + system libstdc++ - system clang + system libstdc++ - system clang + std=c++11 + system libc++ I reproduced the problem on 10-CURRENT, the test results are: - system gcc + system libstdc++ : Build ok, Unit tests *ok* - system clang + system libstdc++: Build ok, Unit tests fail - system clang + std=c++11 + system libc++: Build fails, due to a dependency (databases/db5) not building with those flags. It looks like a problem in libc++ to me, but I didn't have much time to investigate. It might be one of those things that might just go away after a while. Building ports with libc++ and C++11 is a separate, but - for some people and software packages - important topic I will address in a separate post. But overall the port simply doesn't work correctly on HEAD and its non-release versions of clang and libc++. Marking the port as GCC only is not an option though, since building it with clang + C++11 + libc++ results in a lot more useful package and for RELEASE it *does* work correctly. For all I know this might be due to bugs in clang, a problem in Ice or something completely different. So my question is: Are we port maintainers now really supposed to make ports work with CURRENT? That would be an awful lot of extra work and I don't think I'm willing to handle this extra work, especially in case of devel/ice, devel/py-ice and devel/php5-ice, which already took a substantial amount of time to patch and test to make sure they work properly on RELEASE versions of FreeBSD. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Gmelin
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