From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Feb 12 08:16:41 2016 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 E3F98AA3A48 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:16:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@ardiefox.me) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) (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 BE4141A0C for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:16:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@ardiefox.me) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5FCE20AF2 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 03:16:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from web2 ([10.202.2.212]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 12 Feb 2016 03:16:39 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ardiefox.me; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:message-id :mime-version:subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=3zg PHixgedGgOb5B8ruCZkHFyxQ=; b=qiAQt0qesZSXwsrvKRd7J8g10piMOfLnfsk ES1hZ4J9HJ6QubCRBOscHtFrCa6qRKpTo6yO/U9i6GejvqFhTGNyXj53zUMcV7XV d8W5wyE9XR7ny1ppMP4qbvVC6TsKBbuY4xGmqrvQSeD+V3iS+aD6L+m+raUsmLQw k9mcrNXA= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=3zgPHixgedGgOb5B8ruCZkHFyxQ=; b=dGdRp cNX9oGtRKujB8CHizfxXtklkmqF2ns8YTR4K/qq7FLOVyhErTDynaK4MYDpIakt/ n+WhDg57JewMHIkjjpBKDPQbJocHwWhVIW9CKVwUMONWiJMU5fDbsysMgdAwi/v3 OXSLl6DYh8X6SdY4QJzpCg/OWaaXnoNX3esy7I= Received: by web2.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 82CFF54014E; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 03:16:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1455264999.1350954.519180010.763924B8@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: yU3Rotzo24RSn6+VmbJS3Y4oHwwy6km7PhebvBc/FTqB 1455264999 From: "Ardie H. Hwang" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-e69f0414 Subject: Is it a discouraged behavior to limit port's target OS version? Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:16:39 +0900 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:16:42 -0000 Hi all, I need an advice or two regarding the problem I met. I am preparing a submission of new port, which depends on : `databases/mariadb-connector-c`. Everything went okay, until Poudriere test in 9.3-RELEASE jail reported build failure. Apparently 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 on 9.x? -- Ardie H. Hwang ---------------- email: iam@ardiefox.me mobile: +82 10-I-AM-ARDIE (+82 10-4-26-27343)