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

[Sergey V. Dyatko]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:14:12 +0000
RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:

R> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:04:29 -0500
R> Greg Larkin <glarkin at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
R> 
R> 
R> > The CVS commit in question says that the breakage was reported by
R> > pointyhat (FreeBSD package building cluster):
R> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/xfce4-netload-plugin/Makefile#rev1.28
R> > 
R> > In fact, pav@ included the specific compiler error.  I wonder if
R> > there was possibly a bug in the early 8.0 OS at that time (13 Jun
R> > 2009) that caused the build failure.
R> > 
R> > If you are able to build and run successfully under 8.0 now, I
R> > suggest filing a PR with a patch to unbreak the port.
R> 
R> I just tried it and it failed  on 8.0 (RELENGE_8_0), the OP is using
R> 8-stable.

http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/freebsd-ports@freebsd.org/msg17929.html
it stil doesn't compile at -HEAD:
[skipped]
In file included from net.h:21,
                 from netload.c:22:
os.h:98:24: error: net/if_ppp.h: No such file or directory
gmake[2]: *** [xfce4_netload_plugin-netload.o] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/ports/sysutils/xfce4-netload-plugin/work/xfce4-netload-plugin-0.4.0/panel-plugin'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/ports/sysutils/xfce4-netload-plugin/work/xfce4-netload-plugin-0.4.0'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/xfce4-netload-plugin.

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wbr, tiger