NSIS compile failed on FreeBSD 7.2

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:39:48PM -0500, Matt Wilks wrote:
> Just a note of closure.  Apparently NSIS doesn't compile on 64-bit
> architectures.  Compiled fine on an i386 7.2 install (same machine),
> once the proper library paths were provided.
> 
> Matt Wilks wrote:
> >I'm attempting to install NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) on
> >an amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 system and having trouble.  When I run
> >
> >scons SKIPSTUBS=all SKIPPLUGINS=all SKIPUTILS=all SKIPMISC=all
> >NSIS_CONFIG_CONST_DATA_PATH=no
> >
> >in the source directory for NSIS, I get a bunch of errors that look like:
> >
> >/usr/include/c++/4.2/new:95: error: 'operator new' takes type
> >'size_t' ('unsigned int') as first parameter
> >
> >A google search gives me a link to this bug
> >http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28582 that doesn't
> >seem to have been touched since 2006.  Is there someway around
> >this compile error?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Matt

If that's indeed the case, then the port Makefile needs to be modified
to reject building on any architectures other than i386.  This should
suffice:

ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=	i386

If you could file a PR on this matter, the FreeBSD Project folks would
likely appreciate it.  :-)

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