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Mark Linimon's Ports Gripes

Given infinite time and resources, these are the things that MarkLinimon would like to see fixed.

Tree-Wide Regressions

• fallout from clang update in base

  • duplicate_symbol

  • -f-no-common

• default GCC version update in ports

  • Fortran regressions (especially on powerpc64)

• ld: error: undefined symbol: sbrk

Refactoring Needed

• HardcodedCCVersions

• need a USES for clang, which would fix:

  • HardcodedLLVMVersions

• need to move bsd.gcc.mk to Mk/Uses/gcc.mk

Poor Usages

• Overriding the string '''ARCH''', which ought to be considered sacred to the ports framework

• Overriding the string LLVM_DEFAULT, which ought to be considered sacred to the ports framework

• Ports that stomp on the Makevar values of CC_*, CXX_*, LD_*, and so on

Creeping Dependencies

• heavy dependencies that creep in via TEST_DEPENDS (especially painful for riscv64 right now)

• expensive docs dependencies even for trivial ports
• rust has now crept into every desktop environment via spidermonkey78
• x11 libraries

Too Many Compilers In The Tree

• ObsoleteLLVMVersions

See Also

• All Open Ports PRs submitted by MarkLinimon