RFC: updating devel/libgnugetopt

Marius Strobl marius at alchemy.franken.de
Fri Jun 25 02:20:34 PDT 2004


On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:06:08AM +0900, FUJISHIMA Satsuki wrote:
> Once 5.3-RELEASE released, we have complete getopt_long_only() for 5.x
> and libgnugetopt for 4.x. Do we really need to support 5.0R-5.2.1R?
> Since existing 5.x RELEASE is for early adopter, I think marking them,
> that ports depend directly on devel/libgnugetopt,  BROKEN for
> 500000 < OSVERSION < 502104 is enough.
> 
> BROKEN=	update your OS, it is outdated.
> 

Well, I'd like to see this mess cleaned up as good as possible before
5.3 and marking such ports BROKEN on 500000 < OSVERSION < 502104 would
mean also no support for 5.2.1.

> At Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:08:35 +0200,
> Marius Strobl wrote:
> > Btw., since __FreeBSD_version 502104 the libgnugetopt port is no
> > longer required (as getopt_long_only() was added to the FreeBSD
> > libc, too). So bsd.port.mk should grow an USE_GETOPT_LONG_ONLY
> > (similar to the existing USE_GETOPT_LONG) and devel/libgnugetopt
> > marked IGNORE accordingly afterwards (this involves fixing the
> > handful of ports that directly depend on devel/libgnugetopt).
> > 


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