PHP7 + Synth issue

[John Marino]

On 2/17/2016 2:10 PM, Matt Smith wrote:
> Hi guys, I'm using the ports-mgmt/synth package builder to build my
> packages.  I just tried to build all of the packages for PHP7 from the
> new ports and came across an issue. If I set php=7.0 in DEFAULT_VERSIONS
> in the LiveSystem-make.conf (make.conf) then Synth bails out and refuses
> to build the repository. It does this:
> 
> Scanning entire ports tree.
> progress: 5.93%
> culprit: comms/atslog
> Scan aborted because dependency could not be located.
> databases/php70-mysql (required dependency of comms/atslog) does not exist.
> 
> It looks like it scans the port tree, come across a port that has
> USE_PHP=mysql in it and then bails because the port
> databases/php70-mysql does not exist. Obviously because mysql was
> removed from PHP7 in favour of mysqli.
> 
> Is this a problem with the ports infrastructure or should I just not
> declare php=7.0 in the DEFAULT_VERSIONS? If I do this then it builds
> fine, but I guess that might cause other issues elsewhere.

It seems like a problem with comms/atslog to me.
You can work around it now by removing MYSQL as a default option for
that port (either modifying the port itself or adding something in
<profile>-make.conf to change it)

atslog is not maintained.  Another option is hiding the option if
php>=7.  Probably the easiest thing to do is turn off the option by
default though.