Re: smlnj11072 removal proposal

[David Holland <dholland-pkgusers%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 11:53:30AM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > I propose removing lang/smlnj11072. It is an older version of
 > lang/smlnj, which doesn't build in any bulk builds I can find.
 > 
 > https://releng.netbsd.org/bulktracker/lang/smlnj11072
 > 
 > I looked at the CVS history, and it was added in 2016 because of
 > lang/smlnj's lack of i386 support. However, lang/smlnj seems to
 > support i386 fine nowadays, see
 > 
 > https://releng.netbsd.org/bulktracker/lang/smlnj
 > 
 > So, let's remove lang/smlnj11072.

Go ahead, it was only there because of glaring build problems in the
newer version.

At the time, it often took multiple tries to get a successful build of
_either_ version (vs. segfaulting) but as I recall the success rate of
the new version on i386 was identically 0.

I see that lang/smlnj is a considerably newer version; I take it that
means it actually has an upstream again, so we could get the time_t
patches upstreamed?

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David A. Holland
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