Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/gcc9

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

* On 2020-01-26 at 19:15 GMT, Roland Illig wrote:

> Am 26.01.2020 um 15:06 schrieb Jonathan Perkin:
> > * On 2020-01-25 at 20:36 GMT, Roland Illig wrote:
> > 
> > > Module Name:      pkgsrc
> > > Committed By:     rillig
> > > Date:             Sat Jan 25 20:29:11 UTC 2020
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > >   pkgsrc/lang/gcc9: Makefile
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > lang/gcc9: broken on SunOS-*-x86_64
> > 
> > NOT_FOR_PLATFORM is for software that is fundamentally never going to
> > work on a particular platform (for example Linux binaries), not for
> > hiding bugs that should be fixed.
> 
> I marked the package since I don't have access to a SunOS system, and I
> didn't want to slow down the bulk builds, since gcc9 takes quite a while
> to build.
> 
> Do you have a better idea how to resolve this situation?

Just leave it broken.  That way people know it's broken and can fix
it.  That's the entire point of the bulk build reports.

It would help if gcc9 wasn't such a departure from previous gcc
packages.  I'm not particularly motivated to fix it myself as without
a gcc9-libs package it's useless for us.

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