svn commit: r505349 - in head/multimedia: mencoder mplayer mplayer/files

Thomas Zander riggs at freebsd.org
Sun Jun 30 08:14:56 UTC 2019


On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 17:03, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:

> The fact that you've dropped the RTC option is obvious from the commit diff
> itself.  What's not obvious (and thus should be part of the commit log) is
> the reasons behind this decision.

The advantages of supporting it have always been somewhat
questionable. Personally, I have never encountered a single issue that
could be solved by enabling RTC.
Also most of our video-playing user base have not been able to use it
for quite some time anyway, with nobody complaining:
> grep BROKEN /usr/ports/emulators/rtc/Makefile
BROKEN_FreeBSD_12=    fails to compile: rtc.c:166:2: implicit
declaration of function 'MALLOC' is invalid in C99
BROKEN_FreeBSD_13=    fails to compile: rtc.c:166:2: implicit
declaration of function 'MALLOC' is invalid in C99

Riggs


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