Installing ports via pkg on 11 [ports-mgmt/synth only available for amd64 and i386 on FreeBSD]

[Mark Millard]

Brandon J. Wandersee brandon.wandersee at gmail.com wrote on Fri Sep 23 20:07:24 UTC 2016 :

> There's no package repository for PowerPC architecture. You'll need to
> build everything from ports. Others have recommended Poudriere, and it's
> an excellent tool, but if this is your primary or only machine then I
> would personally recommend ports-mgmt/synth.

Only amd64 and i386 have ports-mgmt/synth as an option. This traces back to its use of ada and what the ada compiler supports. . .

ports/head/ports-mgmt/synth/Makefile :

USES=           ada:6

ports/head/lang/gcc6-aux/Makefile :

LANGS=                  c c++ ada
. . .
.if ${OPSYS} == FreeBSD
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=         amd64 i386
. . .
.endif
.if ${OPSYS} == DragonFly
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=         x86_64
. . .




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Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net