cvs commit: ports/devel/glib20 Makefile ports/devel/glib20/files extra-arch-powerpc64

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 25 01:31:18 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:06:10PM +0000, Koop Mast wrote:
> kwm         2010-11-24 21:06:10 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD ports repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     devel/glib20         Makefile 
>   Added files:
>     devel/glib20/files   extra-arch-powerpc64 
>   Log:
>   Due to a flaw in binutils 2.15, function names can conflict with
>   ELF assembler directives on PPC64 systems. As a result, it is not possible
>   to have functions named things like 'text' and 'data'.
>   In glib-compile-schemas.c we have such a name.

Why was it made a conditional extra patch instead of correctly patching
it across the gang with corresponding comment?  This is just one little
static function.  Also, the patch should be submitted upstream (was it?).

Another thing is that ${.CURDIR}/files should probably be ${FILESDIR}
in this context.

./danfe


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