Re: git: d22f15315b93 - main - devel/gmake43: Corrections

On Fri 29 Mar 14:17, Yuri Victorovich wrote:
> On 3/29/24 13:56, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > As I have been told by other this is not explicit enough, an explicit version of
> > this email is: please revert gmake43 addition we are not at a point where it is
> > actually required.
> 
> 
> But should the users of science/nwchem do (at some point I was one of them)?

They can use the quarterly branch for now.
> 
> With gmake-4.4.1 it builds for 20+ hours and times out.
> 
> Try 'pkg search nwchem' - it isn't found.
> 
> They aren't going to quickly fix the build. It isn't slightly broken, it is
> broken a lot, and has always been. With gmake-4.3 it is also unnecessarily
> slow, but passable.
> 
> 
> Are you suggesting to just revert the change, and make NWChem broken again?

Give a chance to upstream to fix (you contacted them only a couple of hours ago)
Give a chance to others to analyse and provide a workaround.
> 
> Could you please elaborate how is this going to make thing better?
> 
> Is it worse to have one extra devel/gmakeNN version used to work around this
> problem and fix the failure, or to keep science/nwchem broken?

Because we don't always need a hammer to kill a fly, when we will have no other
solution left then maybe this will be time to evaluate gmake43, but we are not
there yet.

Best regards,
Bapt