www/aria2 dependencies & lang/llvm33 build error

[Michael Gmelin]

On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 01:20:55 +1100
andrew clarke <mail at ozzmosis.com> wrote:

Slightly confused post on my part, sorry ;)

> On Sun 2013-11-17 14:15:02 UTC+0100, Michael Gmelin (freebsd at grem.de)
> wrote:
> 
> > > > www/aria2 1.18.1 requires lang/clang33. Is this really
> > > > necessary? Previous aria2 versions didn't require clang.
> > > 
> > > I've now had a chance to check the aria2 sources and evidently it
> > > now requires C++11 support, which I find surprising, but that's
> > > progress I suppose...
> > 
> > From a developer's standpoint this makes a lot of sense, since
> > C++11 is more productive and a lot more fun to use.
> 
> Sounds good. I just wonder about the logic behind doing that for a
> minor 1.17 -> 1.18 release though.

True, that's not a very friendly move.

> 
> > I just built sudo successfully on 9.1 using system clang 3.1 and
> > CXX=clang++
> > CXXFLAGS+=-std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++
> 
> Yeah, I have no problem building sudo with clang. The sudo code is all
> C though, not C++.

Well, that was supposed to be "aria2" and not "sudo" (no idea why I
wrote sudo in the first place, probably multitasking when I shouldn't
have). A tried it specifically because it didn't build about two weeks
earlier due to being incompatible with C++11. So it went straight from
not working with C++11 to requiring C++11. Good times :)

> Upgrading from 8.4 to 9.2 was surprisingly painless though, so I'm not
> as concerned with future upgrades. My main worry was root on ZFS, and
> whether the pool would be bootable from the newer kernel. It all went
> swimmingly though. Disk performance seems to have improved a little
> too which is nice.

Yeah, updates to 9 have been really smooth compared to previous releases
(there is nothing like going from 4.11 to 5.3 :D). I have no numbers to
support this, but 9.2 feels snappier to me than 9.1 - like something
got "unstuck".

Cheers,
Michael

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Michael Gmelin