ports/47061: Conflicting system headers by build of graphics/cqcam

[Mark Linimon]

The following reply was made to PR kern/47061; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>
To: Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/47061: Conflicting system headers by build of graphics/cqcam
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 04:54:12 -0600

 >
 >
 >Er, this is really a port[s] problem [...]
 >
 >The system could provide
 >a header that implements inb() and outb() functions for userland (*),
 >but <machine/cpufunc.h> is not this header.
 >
 Other than duplicating the inb/outb code into places in the ports 
 collection,
 there is no way that I can see for the ports collection to fix this problem;
 it involves some kind of change to the system headers.  So, I'm saying that
 I agree with point (2) but that IMHO (2) is necessarily in conflict with 
 (1).
 
 If you have some other suggestion about getting inb/outb functionality into
 the ports, please make it.  (Fair warning: "rewrite or delete the apps" 
 is not
 what I'm looking for :-) ... unless you're also willing to replace the junky
 old parallel-port peripherals that these ports talk to).