The ports collection has some serious issues

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday, 17 December 2016 at 20:16:12 -0600, John Marino wrote:
> On 12/17/2016 19:35, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> $ cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/synth/ && make
>> [ about an hour of grinding away elided ]
>> ===>   ini_file_manager-03_2 depends on file: /usr/local/gcc6-aux/bin/ada - not found
>> ===>  gcc6-aux-20160822 is only for amd64 i386, while you are running armv6.
>>
>> Overall, a total failure.
>>
>> OTOH, portmaster installs in a minute or so and runs perfectly well.  I fail
>> to see why you are so insistant on replacing it with something that doesn't
>> work at all.
>
> Real smooth there, Slick.

Sarcasm might get you somewhere, but I'm not sure you want to be
there.

> It's been mentioned several times in this thread alone that Ada is
> only available for i386 and amd64.  I think you already knew that
> and thus this is a pure troll.

I think Peter has highlighted a significant weakness.  A tool that
doesn't work on all platforms is hardly a replacement for a core tool
that does.

Greg
--
Sent from my desktop computer.
Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key.
See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
This message is digitally signed.  If your Microsoft mail program
reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 163 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/attachments/20161218/2c37e62c/attachment.sig>