ports/78361: devel/libast not 5.x compatible, thus breaking other ports

[Simon Barner]

The following reply was made to PR ports/78361; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Simon Barner <barner at FreeBSD.org>
To: Frank Altpeter <frank.altpeter at gmail.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/78361: devel/libast not 5.x compatible, thus breaking other ports
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:23:16 +0100

 >         Since the update to 0.6.2 of the devel/libast port, it requires
 >         a define LIBAST_COMPAT_05_API to have 0.5 compatibility. If this
 >         is not set on configure time, several functions like
 >         libast_malloc() are not defined anymore.
 >         There are ports like x11/eterm that require this function and
 >         thus are not buildable anymore.
 
 Hi,
 
 this seems to be a dupe of (or at least related to)
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=77906
 
 The eterm problem has been fixed with the update to 0.9.3. Do you know
 any other consumers of libast which were broken by the update?
 
 Simon