ports/100486: SDL port breaks compatibility in several ways

Dmitry Marakasov amdmi3 at mail.ru
Tue Jul 18 16:30:24 UTC 2006


The following reply was made to PR ports/100486; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at mail.ru>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/100486: SDL port breaks compatibility in several ways
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:23:44 +0400

 * mark at darklogik.org (mark at darklogik.org) wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 > The libSDL port (devel/sdl12) has a number of problems. First of all,
 > for apparently no reason whatsoever, the 'config' binary 'sdl-config'
 > is renamed to 'sdl11-config' which breaks compatibility with the
 > majority of build scripts unless they take extra pains to support
 > FreeBSD (which precisely goes against the point of using SDL in the
 > first place).
 
 I somewhat second this pr, REINPLACE'ing sdl-config and #include <SDL/
 add some useless work when porting software, and I don't think this
 *11*/*1.1* atavism is useful in any way.
 
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