Re: Disowning devel/plan9port

In reply to: Felix Hanley : "Disowning devel/plan9port"
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From: Bakul Shah <bakul_at_iitbombay.org>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 02:02:53 UTC

On May 26, 2024, at 6:05 PM, Felix Hanley <felix@userspace.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am the current maintainer of devel/plan9port but I am unable to give
> time to it at the moment so I will need to disown it. There is a current
> bug meaning it fails to build in all environments.
> 
> My apologies for any inconvenience this may cause interested people.

I build it straight from github repo but one issue I noticed is
14.1 (& stable/14) added kcmp, which clashes with p9p's own kcmp.
This was added to FreeBSD as "linux has it" but linux doesn't
define this function as FreeBSD does! And worse, this is added
to <unistd.h> in FreeBSD.