Re: git: 5d67fe169bc4 - main - security/nmap*: Actually use devel/pcre2

On 2026-03-29 14:28, Cy Schubert wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by cy:
>
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=5d67fe169bc41ebbb104bc6b7729258969e80772
>
> commit 5d67fe169bc41ebbb104bc6b7729258969e80772
> Author:     Cy Schubert <cy@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2026-03-29 12:17:51 +0000
> Commit:     Cy Schubert <cy@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2026-03-29 12:28:11 +0000
>
>      security/nmap*: Actually use devel/pcre2
>      
>      devel/pcre2 is specified as a dependency but not used. Instead nmap
>      uses its own pcre2, which is missing symbols from its symbol table.
>      This is not a problem with 16-CURRENT but 15-RELEASE-p2 fails to build.
>      We fix this by using the pcre2 provided by ports.
>      
>      PR:             294112
> ---
>   security/nmap-devel/Makefile | 5 ++++-
>   security/nmap/Makefile       | 6 +++---
>   2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Hi Cy,

Are there any plans or perhaps already in progress working with upstream 
to reduce the amount of local patches? Some of them seems to be very old.

Thanks for maintaining nmap!

Best regards,
Daniel