On 2022/02/28 12:40, Volker Schlecht wrote:
>
> > > Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev> wrote:
> > > > It uses fork instead of posix_spawn ... both OpenBSD and FreeBSD remove
> > > > that line in their ports, though. NetBSD keeps it as it is.
> > > >
> > > > It was added by upstream 8 years ago, and the comment refers to
> > > > posix_spawn being new to BSDs at the time.
> >
> > so that part of the patch can probably be garbage-collected now?
>
> Not quite. The configuration from *upstream* wants to use fork instead of
> posix_spawn, and they made that decision 8 years ago.
>
> Our own patch reverts that upstream configuration and makes it use
> posix_spawn instead. FreeBSD has a patch to the same effect:
>
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/lang/nim/files/patch-config-nim.cfg
>
> Unless we have a problem with posix_spawn, I'd keep it in.
>
Ah I misread it. That's fine then. op@, OK with the PORTHOME change suggested
by tb.
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