creating a new port for FreeBSD-5 only?

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Fri Mar 19 15:00:18 PST 2004


Kay Lehmann wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> as said in the subject I would like to know if it is ok to create a port 
> for FreeBSD-5 only. It is a kde-dependend program which requires gcc >=3 
> and so won't run on 4-stable as kdelibs are build with systems gcc, 
> which is incompatible with gcc-3 (or am I wrong?). So I don't know if I 
> should send-pr this or not. How should this be handled?

There are already ports that don't work on 4.x, so you could mark it
IGNORE on 4.x. OTOH you should ask on kde@ first if there is a known
workaround to get your port working on 4.x

Oliver



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