sysutils/xfce4-netload-plugin - why is it marked as broken on 8?

[RW]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:04:29 -0500
Greg Larkin <glarkin at FreeBSD.org> wrote:


> The CVS commit in question says that the breakage was reported by
> pointyhat (FreeBSD package building cluster):
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/xfce4-netload-plugin/Makefile#rev1.28
> 
> In fact, pav@ included the specific compiler error.  I wonder if there
> was possibly a bug in the early 8.0 OS at that time (13 Jun 2009) that
> caused the build failure.
> 
> If you are able to build and run successfully under 8.0 now, I suggest
> filing a PR with a patch to unbreak the port.

I just tried it and it failed  on 8.0 (RELENGE_8_0), the OP is using
8-stable.