BROKEN tags (Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/avr-libc Makefile)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 01:28:08AM -0700, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> joerg       2003/05/19 01:28:08 PDT
> 
>   FreeBSD ports repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     devel/avr-libc       Makefile 
>   Log:
>   Remove BROKEN.  It's not that port that is broken, but FreeBSD 5.x in
>   that it has broken /again/ all cross-compilation attempts.  Whoever
>   broke it ought to fix that.

BROKEN indicates that the port does not compile.  While I agree with
you that the fault lies with bsd.cpu.mk, this fact remains true.
Perhaps you could update the error message to be more descriptive of
the problem, but it should remain BROKEN until it can again be
compiled successfully.

The point of the BROKEN tag is to provide a message to prospective
users of the port that there are known problems with the software.  If
it's not there, then they will encounter confusing compilation
failures when they go to build the port, and among other things this
looks bad for FreeBSD.

Thanks,
Kris
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