Instafix for FreeBSD ports brokenness on 10.0?

[Beech Rintoul]

On Friday 30 September 2011 13:10:20 Jim Trigg wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Erwin Lansing <erwin at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > That said, this patch is the wrong place to fix a problem to autotools.
> > It needs to be fixed in autotools, not bsd.port.mk.  No matter if it's
> > bsd.ports.mk or autotools, such a fix needs proper testing, for which
> > we do not currently have the resources as we are concentrating on
> > releasing 9.0.  I would suggest you do the same and make 9.0 the best
> > release possible during the next few weeks, after that we'll start
> > looking into 10.0.
> 
> I have to admit that my reaction is not so much "Why won't you fix
> ports for 10.0" as "Why was 9.0 dropped out of CURRENT and 10.0
> introduced before 9.0 went STABLE?"
> 
> Jim

At this point 9.0 and 10.0 are virtually identical. I really doubt that there 
will be much development in -CURRENT till after 9.0 is released anyway.

A couple of the temporary fixes worked for me, so I can still update if I need 
to. All in all this is minor compared to a few years ago when all development 
was done directly on the head branch. You never knew from day to day and 
sometimes by the hour if -CURRENT would even build let alone run. This is just 
a bump in the road by comparison.

Beech
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