ports/76959: Update port: math/polymake: patches has grown once again

[Volker Stolz]

The following reply was made to PR ports/76959; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Volker Stolz <stolz at i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
To: Ewgenij Gawrilow <gawrilow at math.TU-Berlin.DE>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/76959: Update port: math/polymake: patches has grown once again
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:08:46 +0100

 Am 03. Feb 2005 um 12:46 CET schrieb Ewgenij Gawrilow:
 > 
 > >>>>> "Volker" == Volker Stolz <vs at freebsd.org> writes:
 > 
 >     Volker> Hm, on 4.11 I get an endless loop with: Please specify a
 >     Volker> path to g++ : [none] seems not to be any of the supported
 >     Volker> C++ compilers (GNU, Intel, Comeau);
 > 
 > The configure script expects that the CXX variable supplied by the
 > Makefile points to the g++ executable of the version 3.3 or later.
 > GCC is recognized if the executable name ends with g++, c++,
 > g++-VERSION, or c++-VERSION.  If it is not an absolute path, it should
 > be accessible via PATH.
 
 cd /stolz at menelaos [13:07:45]> cd /usr/ports/math/polymake/
 polymake at menelaos [13:07:47]> make -V CXX
 c++
 polymake at menelaos [13:07:50]> c++ -v
 Using builtin specs.
 gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]
 
 > Another reason for the failure can be that the package has not been
 > tested with FreeBSD 4.x at all, only with 5.3.  It requires perl >=
 > 5.6.1, which seems to be missing in the 4.x
 
 I have perl 5.6.2 installed.
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