On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2010/01/25 22:18, Antti Harri wrote: >> >> I think the port should be marked as BROKEN as it requires cpu >> instructions that for example none of my desktops have (all older >> i386, athlon or similar). The best so far has been that it attempted >> to start but crashed horribly right after some initial dialog window. > > We build quite a few packages for various arch where the machines > do not have the capability to actually run them.. whereas this > package is actually useful for many people. > > Fixing would be great. If that can't be done soon I'd be totally > happy with a note in DESCR and think we should probably have that > for 4.7. BROKEN seems a bit harsh considering that a fairly large > number of systems should be capable of running it.. > >
At least maybe patch could be provided in patches/ directory rather than integrated in the downloaded source. Maybe it could help to debug. Also it seems that freebsd port have made a lot of progress in it. I would like to try it but it would help to have the changes made for openbsd to not reinvent the wheel. - benoit
