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Subject: Re: CFD: the future of ports on powerpc64/12 and powerpc64/11
From: Jason Bacon <bacon4000 () gmail ! com>
Date: 2021-05-28 20:36:41
Message-ID: 42bbd61e-2fdd-c292-e800-e98ae534e60e () gmail ! com
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On 5/28/21 1:33 PM, linimon@portsmon.org linimon@portsmon.org wrote:
> [attempting re-send from a properly subscribed-to address.]
>
> For a long time I have been attempting to keep ports building on
> powerpc64/12. This, along with mips*/12, is still stuck on having
> GCC4.2.1 in base. (Of course, in 13/14, we are based on clang.)
>
> (I have not even looked at the state of ports on 11 in over a year.)
>
> Although most of the individual problems are not that hard to fix or
> work around, the fact is that I have become overwhelmed by the number
> of them. This is both for existing ports where updates switch to taking
> advantage of c11 or c++11 (or later) features, but, most notably, for
> the number of new ports added every week.
>
> The problems noticed in the last 1-2 months are:
>
> math/openblas (I am told there is an upstream fix)
> math/mpdecimal (affects lang/python* but it can be worked around)
> math/clp
> devel/indi
> devel/py-gobject3 (also affects python)
> print/libraqm
>
> tl;dr: I intend to stop working on ports testing on powerpc64/12.
>
> (fwiw, pkubaj@ has already moved on to 13.)
>
> If anyone wants to pick this task up, please contact me. But at
> this point it is simply taking too much of my time, on which I
> already have demands I cannot fulfill.
>
> mcl
>
I'm all for reallocating scarce and valuable man-hours to more
sustainable and marketable products. Now that we have a modern
clang-based powerpc platform, I see very little reason to continue
sinking time into legacy tier-2 platforms based on an antiquated compiler.
--
Earth is a beta site.
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