Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:16:39 +0900 From: "Ardie H. Hwang" <lists@ardiefox.me> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Is it a discouraged behavior to limit port's target OS version? Message-ID: <1455264999.1350954.519180010.763924B8@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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Hi all, I need an advice or two regarding the problem I met. I am preparing a submission of new port, which depends on <iconv.h>: `databases/mariadb-connector-c`. Everything went okay, until Poudriere test in 9.3-RELEASE jail reported build failure. Apparently <iconv.h> has been added to base system since 10.0-RELEASE. The question is: this limiting OS version for this port, is this a discouraged idea? The method I am thinking is to display error if OS version is less than 10.x, upon checking OSVERSION makevar in Makefile. But this will discriminate against fellow 9.x users. I have another solution of adding `converters/iconv` (libiconv.so) as this port's library dependency. However, I am worried that doing this might cause problem on 10.x versions. Can someone tell me what to do regarding this <iconv.h> on 9.x? -- Ardie H. Hwang ---------------- email: iam@ardiefox.me mobile: +82 10-I-AM-ARDIE (+82 10-4-26-27343)
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