Re: platform-specific patches

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

> On Dec 30, 2024, at 05:17, Ismael Luceno <ismael%iodev.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On 29/Dec/2024 21:42, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The pkgsrc patches for Darwin x86_64 can easily be made a separate
>> patchset and put on ftp.netbsd.org, and then only applied in the
>> Darwin x86_64 case. That would solve this problem with minimal effort.
> 
> I wonder... How much effort would it be to make the patches universal?

The homebrew patchset for gcc12 is over 16k lines and hits 256 files.

I expect that integrating all of that into pkgsrc would be a lot of work and highly error prone.

I also expect that supporting platform-specific patches within pkgsrc would be a more straightforward, and general, solution.

Cheers,
Brook