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Re: pkgsrc frozen for 2017Q2



On 06/30/17 16:55, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 04:45:31PM -0500, Jason Bacon wrote:
On the other, I modified mk.conf so that everything possible will be built
with GCC 4.8.  Below is the minimum required to avoid circular dependencies.
That list is way too long. If you want to avoid picking up native stuff,
you should really consider compiling gcc48 without nls and with
gcc-inplace-math. I have no idea why it pulls in Perl -- that's wrong on
so many levels, but not my package.

Joerg

I don't like it either, but my short-term goal is to make it quick and easy for scientists to bootstrap a working 2017Q2 tree on CentOS 6, and this may end up being our best option for a workaround.

As we've just ramped up efforts to promote pkgsrc to the HPC community, we need to remove as many hurdles as possible, so those who are curious come away with a good first impression.

Hopefully we'll find consensus on a permanent solution for platforms with older compilers soon...

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