svn commit: r405907 - head/Mk

[Montgomery-Smith, Stephen]

On 01/12/2016 03:21 PM, John Marino wrote:
> On 1/12/2016 10:15 PM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
>> On 01/12/2016 02:15 PM, John Marino wrote:
>>> On 1/12/2016 8:56 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>>>> Author: stephen
>>>> Date: Tue Jan 12 19:56:13 2016
>>>> New Revision: 405907
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/405907
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>   - Svn revision 405533 upgraded /math/octave to version 4.0.0.  This version
>>>>     of octave segfaults with FreeBSD.  Many of the octave-forge-* ports don't
>>>>     build, and those that build don't work.  So they are all being marked
>>>>     broken until it is fixed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why not revert 405533 instead (and set the epoch)?
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Because I don't maintain the math/octave port.
>>
> 
> It seems if there was ever a reason to revert a port, this is it.
> There are over 100 ports dependent on octave, I would think they would
> have to be tested before upgrading octave (every time).
> 
> Did you contact maho@?
> 
> Maybe he should be the one to revert it, but somebody needs to.  The
> situation is bad.
> 
> John

I agree.  I did contact maho at .  But someone just sent me a patch that
might fix it.  Give us a few days to get through this.