From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Feb 24 13:17:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A4937B9C0 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:17:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from asme.org ([168.176.3.31]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA4200 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:17:01 -0500 Message-ID: <38B59CE6.DE9D1697@asme.org> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:04:38 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Reply-To: pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Problems maintaining my ports Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello; I had a problem with the modem on my FreeBSD box and I will be unable to do real maintainance on my ports :-(. Please feel free to submit/commit new changes without asking me. I sent PRs regarding some issues that can be fixed without my intervention, however I wanted to comment on certain issues: - crosssco port: My idea was to upgrade this to gcc-2.8.1 and probably maintain the newlib apart for the basic crosscompiler (like Jerry Hicks did on his m68k cross kit). 1386-coff could be used to build SCO compatibility libraries, but this is probably not something important anymore. Unless someone objects this port (and scogdb) should be nuked, or at least labelled NO_CDROM. - GNU ghostscript: I received some exciting news from Martin Lottermoser: > > Thank you very much for making hpdj available in FreeBSD! This has > probably contributed significantly to hpdj becoming known which in turn > has led people to ask Peter Deutsch why hpdj was not included in the > ghostscript distribution which has finally led to him approaching me > in December last year which in turn :-) has led to him promising that > it will be included in the near future (it was too late for gs 6.0). If the same build scheme (keeping the fonts as an independent distribution) is adopted for the post 6.0 Alladin ghostscript, then I see no reason to keep GNU ghostscript in the ports tree: Alladin's license is not significantly restricted respect to the GPL. -Willows twin: this port shoul be nuked as soon as twine is included in the tree. The reason are explained in twin's DESCR file. - FElt: It seems like FEA programs are having a comeback :-). There is a new ftp site and WWW page that I will submit RSN as a PR. A new version fixing the problems on more than 8 bpp will be released. -atlast: This is very buggy, but curiously it only fails on gcc, FWIW building it with tcc produces good binaries ! Don't worry about these issues :-) I have had great fun porting FreeBSD stuff during this years, and when I overcome minor this glitch I will probably continue (at an even slower rate though). thanks, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message