Re: [UPDATE] Re: Update on ports on 10.0

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:42:00 +0400
Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src_at_yandex.ru> wrote:

> Erwin Lansing wrote on 27.10.2011 14:21:
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:44:34PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> >>>>> What, on the other hand, makes sense is to have the fix that
> >>>>> should include:
> >>>>> a) a KNOB (WITH_FBSD10_FIX or similar),
> >>>>> b) that only is run from bsd.port.mk when OSVERSION>1000000
> >>>>> c) runs the latest version of the above patch.
> >>>>> The KNOB's existence allow us to turn on the fix only for broken
> >>>>> ports, and easily know what these broken ports are -- so we can
> >>>>> poke maintainers from time to time about upstream fixes, ...
> >>>>
> >>
> >> Erwin is currently running a build on i386-10 with this and the
> >> following patches:
> >> - bsd.port.mk patch from beat (based on ed_at_, jilles_at_ and stas_at_
> >> patches)
> >> - python patch from beat
> >> - python patch from linimon
> >> - WITH_FBSD10_FIX in:
> >>          - textproc/expat2
> >>          - devel/pcre
> >>          - devel/libtool
> >>          - audio/libogg
> >> Results by Monday.
> >>
> >
> > These patches have now been committed to the tree, notably with
> > lang/python27 missing in the above list but was included as well.
> > There have been some proposals already and we can now incrementally
> > improve the workaround and, more importantly, start fixing
> > individual ports.  Please note that the patch tries to balance
> > between being a general enough fix to make it easy to get a working
> > system running while not just swiping the whole issue under the rug
> > and forget about it until the next release cycle.  Make sure to
> > send any fixes upstream to the hack can be removed from the ports
> > again.
> >
> > Thanks for all your patience and thanks for all those involved,
> > especially beat who sent many patches and improvements.
> >
> > Erwin
> 
> About devel/libtool fix. Why to not update it to 2.4.2 where this was 
> fixed upstream? I mean http://bugs.freebsd.org/162012

We probably need an other set of -exps for that, given how many ports
depends on it, and I don't think we have the time for that before the
release.

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