FreeBSD ports which are currently marked broken

[wen heping]

2011/1/7 Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk>:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:29:10AM +0100, linimon at freebsd.org wrote:
>>
>> portname:           math/dislin
>> broken because:     size mismatch
>> build errors:       none.
>> overview:           http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/portoverview.py?category=math&portname=dislin
>>
>
> Is this a security concern?
> I've never used this port before, but it looks intersting.
>
> By doing
>
> rm distinfo*
> make makesum
>
> I can install this port. Is this not a good idea?


It is not a good way, but it is not a bad way either.

I think you can use dislin by your way with no harm.
But I shall commit a fix to unbreak it soon.



>
>
>
> However, it seems the binaries provided (to get the sources
> one has to buy a licence) are only for i386:


It offers a free use for non-commercial use which mentioned
in dislin's Makefile.



>
> from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/grafik/dislin/unix/README.UNX
>
>  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  |       File                   Computer/Oper.-System        Compiler     |
>  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  |                                                                        |
>  | dislin-10.0.fbsd.tar.gz       IBM-PC / FreeBSD 8.x     gcc, f2c, f77,  |
>  |                                                          Perl, Python  |
>  |                                                                        |
>  |                                                                        |
>  | dislin-10.0.fbsd-5.4.tar.gz   IBM-PC / FreeBSD 5.x     gcc, f2c, f77,  |
>  |                                                          Perl, Python  |
>  |                                                                        |
>  |                                                                        |
>  | dislin-10.0.fbsd-6.0.tar.gz   IBM-PC / FreeBSD 6.x      gcc, f2c, f77, |
>  |                                                          Perl, Python  |
>  |                                                                        |
>  |                                                                        |
>  | dislin-10.0.fbsd-7.0.tar.gz   IBM-PC / FreeBSD 7.x      gcc, f2c, f77, |
>  |                                                          Perl, Python  |
>  |                                                                        |
>
>
> Should there be an ONLY_FOR_ARCHS defined for this port then?

I can build it on amd64 platform well.


wen



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