[Bug 282868] [NEW PORT] textproc/sexp: S-expressions processing tool
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:39:31 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=282868 Bug ID: 282868 Summary: [NEW PORT] textproc/sexp: S-expressions processing tool Product: Ports & Packages Version: Latest Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: --- Component: Individual Port(s) Assignee: ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: freebsd@dev.thsi.be Created attachment 255306 --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=255306&action=edit 0001-textproc-sexp-New-port-S-expressions-processing-tool.patch Sexp is a "Swiss Army knife" command-line tool for processing S-expressions. Most of the patching in this port is to allow building with our ocaml-dune version. The remaining patches are trivial build fixes (either caused by the unorthodox mix of versions, a linux miss-compatibility issue of async, and what looks like to be a bug in the upstream ld.script of the re2 library exposed by a stricter llvm-ld). All the build dependencies are vendored, except for devel/ocaml-compiler-libs. The primary reason for vendoring the build dependencies is that this tool might turn out to be useful as a PATCH_DEPENDS (e.g. for patching ocaml-dune build files), and therefore we cannot tolerate the risk of introducing a cyclic-dependency. The secondary reason for vendoring is to avoid doing too much packaging work, a work which might also end up causing more friction when wanting to update other parts of the ocaml stack (see the last note). The version-set of the vendored libraries has been verified to allow this package to compile with both OCaml version 4.14 and 5.2 (for the later, with an updated ocaml-compiler-libs package). As a matter of a fact, this port only provides a single executable having no runtime-lib depedencies from the port tree. For all those reasons, it is my opinion that the advantage of vendoring the build dependencies outmatches any down-side. This port has been tested on current amd64 150027, on a recent-ish main ports tree. Note: in their latest incantations (v0.17+), many of the janestreet libraries do not work on ocaml 4.14 anymore. Upstream has clearly announced that, going forward, new releases are targetting OCaml 5+ only, and their assumption is that OCaml 5.3 will be deemed production-grade. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.