Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 01:39:05 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, citric@cubicone.tmetic.com, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fixing lang/spidermonkey Message-ID: <1123565945.36551.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200508081518.38403.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200508081518.38403.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
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--=-S64nRL9rkY/XBRGkClW1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 15:18 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! >=20 > The attachment contains an upgrade to lang/spidermonkey. The benefits are= : >=20 > . build on amd64 at all and _properly_ on all other platforms > (-fPIC -DPIC should be used for shared objects everywhere); > . do not build vendor's own version of libm (fdlibm) -- FreeBSD's > -lm provides sufficient functionality (mozilla, firefox contain > the same foolishness, BTW); > . uses -lreadline instead of building vendor's own "editline"; > . unless WITHOUT_TESTS is set, download, patch and run the vendor's > set of self-tests; > . patch to compile cleanly with '-Wall -Werror'. >=20 > Mozilla people indicate, that they plan to make a new release of spidermo= nkey,=20 > when Firefox-1.5 ships (circa September): >=20 > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D303857 >=20 > When that takes place, spidermonkey can be used _instead_ of browsers' ow= n=20 > snapshots of js thus reducing the porting effort, cutting build-times, an= d=20 > providing a single place for patches. >=20 > Considering that, on one hand, the port is marked broken on amd64 since M= arch=20 > 2004 (a tier-1 platform), and, on the other, nothing depends on it (no ne= w=20 > possible new breakage), I ask portmgr to also allow me to merge these fix= es=20 > before release -- unless the maintainer objects in a few days. Approved assuming the maintainer accepts. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-S64nRL9rkY/XBRGkClW1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC+EF5b2iPiv4Uz4cRApvxAJ4yT/5j4Zrb4gcT3Ui55dqarQaTHgCgqF0t imkWhTMSDlK+lUWG/4mndCs= =RitP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-S64nRL9rkY/XBRGkClW1--
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