Re: NEW: devel/libaio

Hi ports --

On 01/05/18 19:19, Brian Callahan wrote:
> Hi ports --
>
> Attached is a new port, devel/libaio. libaio is a port of the
> DragonFly BSD userland POSIX asynchronous I/O routines to OpenBSD.
>
> When updating lang/flang earlier today, I realized that there are a
> dozen patches that work around the fact that OpenBSD doesn't have an
> aio implementation. Having to maintain a number of patches for flang
> already, reducing that number is a great help.
>
> It turns out that DragonFly BSD has a minimal but standard-compliant
> userland implementation of aio. So I did a quick and dirty port of it.
> flang is very happy with it.
>
> According to POSIX, these routines belong in librt. I'm not opening
> that can of worms. I named the library libaio. That way, you have to
> specifically seek it out to use it. The good news is that a quick
> perusal of the ports tree didn't turn up any port other than flang
> that has patches that work around not having aio. At this rate, it'll
> be maybe 2038 by the time another port needs the library anyway.
>
> ---
> pkg/DESCR:
> libaio is a port of the POSIX asynchronous I/O library from DragonFly
> BSD to OpenBSD.
>
> This version of AIO is aimed at standards compliance; it is not aimed at
> either reasonability or performance. It merely wraps synchronous I/O
> routines.
> ---
>
> Builds and passes some rudimentary tests on both amd64 and armv7.
> Makes flang happy on amd64.
>
> OK?
>
> ~Brian
>

I'd still like to get this in. New tarball attached. This will very much
help keep flang updated.

~Brian