The Perils of Porting

Got a new patches to the ports infrastructure committed, after they’ve been tested on Pointyhat over the past week.

• USE_GHOSTSCRIPT default dependency was flipped from ghostscript-gnu to ghostscript-gpl. According to the vendor website, GPL is the license of choice for the Ghostscript project now.


• bsd.tcl.mk got a total overhaul by Martin MatuÅ¡ka, a promising new guy from neighbouring country Slovakia, who, if I can spill the secret, recently got approved for his own commit bit. The most visible change is that the USE_TCL* and USE_TK* macros are now modelled after the USE_PERL5* ones.


• There’s been some optimizations by Mikhail Teterin, but the patch is so esotheric I have no idea what he did changed. The previous revision of the patch was in the previous exp-run, but only the current one tested without any failures.


• OPTIONS got two important fixes. First, courtesy of Rong-En Fan from Taiwan, the default variables for not-yet set options are not correctly created all the time. This should allow people to test just any WITH_FOO / WITHOUT_FOO combinations they please to. Second change, done by me, makes the blue dialog pop up every time the new version of port adds a new variable that wasn’t around when user saved his options last time.

And that’s about it. There’s ongoing work on the python25 patch, so that will get another exp-run soon.