freebsd stable - Jun 2020 - question on porting

Am 10.06.20 um 15:45 schrieb Donald Wilde:
> On 6/10/20, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 08:09:21PM -0700, Donald Wilde wrote:
>>> (and FreeBSD's port maintainers) reach the point of diminishing
>>> returns by supporting GCC
>>
> 
> Hi, Mark! LTNT2!
> 
>> All you have to do is fix all the ports that have been marked as
>> depending on GCC (in most cases, because they fail to build on
>> clang):
>>
>>   x3850-1# grep gcc INDEX-13 | wc -l
>>       3848
>>
> Hmmm... tried running that and mine doesn't seem to find INDEX-13 as a
file.
> 
> Tried ' find / -name "INDEX-13" '
You have to either create or fetch the INDEX file:

$ cd /usr/ports
$ make index

or

$ cd /usr/ports
$ make fetchindex

Regards, STefan

On 6/10/20, Stefan E?er <se at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Am 10.06.20 um 15:45 schrieb Donald Wilde:
>> On 6/10/20, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 08:09:21PM -0700, Donald Wilde wrote:
[snip]
>>>   x3850-1# grep gcc INDEX-13 | wc -l
>>>       3848
>>>
>> Hmmm... tried running that and mine doesn't seem to find INDEX-13
as a
>> file.
>>
>> Tried ' find / -name "INDEX-13" '
>
> You have to either create or fetch the INDEX file:
>
> $ cd /usr/ports
> $ make index
>
> or
>
> $ cd /usr/ports
> $ make fetchindex
>
> Regards, STefan
>
Thanks, Stefan!

Memo to self: figure out what basic options are supported in
Makefiles, especially in /usr/ports/, and make clear documentation
patches (if needed). :D

-- 
Don Wilde
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