Sunday, October 01, 2023

Re: OS version in packages

Marc Espie:

> Every release, it's the same dance: a few packages want version bumps
> because the OS version changed.

Here's the list of offenders that have ${OSREV} in some path:

editors/xemacs21/stable
lang/bootgcc
lang/gcc/11
lang/gcc/8
lang/gpc
lang/pcc/pcc-libs
lang/swi-prolog
math/octave

And these get bumped because they compile in a path to gcc that
changes:

devel/clang-tools-extra
devel/llvm

> I propose that, after 7.4, we get rid of those pesky version numbers that
> are useless for us.

Fine by me. I think we're in the current situation simply because
nobody has sat down to fix it.

> (did we do it for base gcc as well, I don't remember)

We did not, see distrib/sets/lists/comp/gcc.sparc64.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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