Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/gcc9

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2020-01-10 at 00:28 GMT, Roland Illig wrote:

> Module Name:  pkgsrc
> Committed By: rillig
> Date:         Fri Jan 10 00:28:03 UTC 2020
> 
> Modified Files:
>       pkgsrc/lang/gcc9: PLIST
> Added Files:
>       pkgsrc/lang/gcc9: PLIST.Darwin-x86_64 PLIST.NetBSD-x86_64
> 
> Log Message:
> lang/gcc9: split PLIST into platform-specific files
> 
> The PLISTs differ a lot between the platforms. For gathering the initial
> data it is easier to just list the files per platform than trying to get
> all the conditions right in the first place.
> 
> There will be conditions for operating systems, for platforms, for
> features, for version-specific include files to be fixed, for installed
> programming languages, for nls, and several more.

This is why we use dynamic plists for GCC.  Yes, it's not ideal, but
it's far preferable to this alternative where the package is broken on
the vast vast majority of pkgsrc platforms.

I don't like this at all.

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