Re: lang/cython broken on FreeBSD 14?

In reply to: George Mitchell : "lang/cython broken on FreeBSD 14?"
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From: George Mitchell <george+freebsd_at_m5p.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:53:43 UTC

On 1/9/25 14:08, George Mitchell wrote:
> After a fairly successful FreeBSD 13->14 base system update last week,
> I've spent many days updating my ports tree. Quite a few ports that
> involve Cython, including some where the involvement is obvious such
> as databases/py-sqlite3 and others where the involvement is surprising
> and indirect, such as print/tex-dvipsk, failed.  I had no idea that
> there is a newer version of Cython until I delved into bugzilla.  Lo
> and behold, updating seems to have fixed all my problems!
> 
> There's not a peep about this in /usr/ports/UPDATING.  More to the
> point, would it be appropriate to add:
> 
> BROKEN_FreeBSD_14=   Does not work on FreeBSD 14; use lang/cython3 instead.
> 
> to lang/cython/Makefile?
> 
> (I added a comment about this to bug 281145.)             -- George

As noted in bug 281145, I am oversimplifying to say that cython is
broken on FBSD14; some other ports require cython instead in of cython3.
But switching to cython3 solves MANY of the problems.  So it is too soon
to mark it BROKEN on FBSD14.  Sorry!                          -- George