[UPDATE] Re: Update on ports on 10.0

[Eitan Adler]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at acm.org> wrote:
> Once hackish work-arounds get committed, it is extremely difficult to
> root them out.  The last time the project included a temporary hack to
> assist with a similar problem (the aout to ELF migration in FreeBSD
> 3), it took more than a decade to get the hack out of base and after
> 13 years, there are still 71 ports (by my count) with local work-arounds.

> Based on the objformat mess, whatever is done will hang around in
> the tree for at least a decade so we are far better off spending
> some time now to come up with the best solution, rather than quickly
> committing a work-around that we spend the next decade regretting.

This hack still has remnants in the tree:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/155737


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Eitan Adler