[linimon@FreeBSD.org: ports/170946: [patch] mark certain ports broken on ARM]

[Eitan Adler]

On 25 August 2012 11:27, Mikhail T. <mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
> On 23.08.2012 21:47, Eitan Adler wrote:
>
> NOT and ONLY are meant for ports which by definition will never work
> another arch (think x86info).  In this case the ports are just broken.
>
> That's a fine distinction, that makes little sense to me -- the total number
> of ports, which can not ever work on some architecture is, probably, a
> couple dozen... It is also not mentioned in the Handbook at all:

The reason for the distinction is the existence of the -DTRYBROKEN
flag. In theory, an exp run is done with -DTRYBROKEN every so often.
*FOR_ARCH is not tested when this happens.

-- 
Eitan Adler