Why don't we just remove xorg-cf-files, imake, and all dependent ports? Obviously any project still using imake a decade after the build system was declared dead are themselves not well maintained projects and I argue should not be in our port repository.
These are the ports that depend on the archaic build system: spim ivtools magicpoint tgif xfig kdebase3 transfig arb rasmol openvas-server canna emiclock fvwm kinput2 kxterm sunclock tightvnc vtwm wmclock xcb xearth xmove xsnow xspringies xtu --Jeremy > On Sep 27, 2014, at 19:15, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm going to try to work on the imake problem, specifically that ports using > imake fail with Xcode 5 and up because they require a cpp with traditional > cpp support which clang doesn't have. > > In the process I plan to create an xmkmf portgroup to replace the use_xmkmf > keyword in base. > > My proposal is to have this portgroup depend on the latest stable gcc port > (currently gcc49) and have it use its cpp in IMAKECPP when the Xcode version > is 5 or greater. I tried this with one port already and was able to build it > on Yosemite beta. > > Let me know if you have any objections to this proposal or if you have other > ideas how to solve this problem. > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
