sysutils/xfce4-netload-plugin - why is it marked as broken on 8?

[Greg Larkin]

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Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Hello,
> The port sysutils/xfce4-netload-plugin is marked as BROKEN on 8.0.
> But if I remove the three lines from the makefile, it compiles and installs
> fine here. What gives?
> 
> This is on
> tingo at kg-v2$ uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-v2.kg4.no 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Wed Jan  6 21:21:40
> CET 2010     root at kg-v2.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> BTW, the plugin works too.

Hi Torfinn,

The CVS commit in question says that the breakage was reported by
pointyhat (FreeBSD package building cluster):
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/xfce4-netload-plugin/Makefile#rev1.28

In fact, pav@ included the specific compiler error.  I wonder if there
was possibly a bug in the early 8.0 OS at that time (13 Jun 2009) that
caused the build failure.

If you are able to build and run successfully under 8.0 now, I suggest
filing a PR with a patch to unbreak the port.

Hope that helps,
Greg
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