On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:38:43AM +0000, Havard Eidnes wrote: > Module Name: src > Committed By: he > Date: Sun May 17 11:38:43 UTC 2009 > > Modified Files: > src/crypto/external/bsd/netpgp/bin: Makefile > > Log Message: > Add LDADD+= and DPADD+= settings so that this builds on sun2 as well, > where we can't rely on shared libraries expressing the needs of the > program.
[This isn't specific to netpgp, I had the same discussion over one of the other libraries that we have - agc] Once again, we come down to having to modify Makefiles for the sole benefit of Sun2s. So I'll ask again - does anyone have one any more? The last Sun2 I used must have been 1987, so I suspect most of its use these days is from emulators. If not, can someone send me a picture please - it's been a long, long time. Yeah, I know it's a little thing, but it's the principle - since bending over backwards to support slow and old platforms may impact support for newer platforms, and the excellent performance figures that Andrew showed with the release of 5.0. http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_5_0_an_overview http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/ Wouldn't it be more advantageous to the project as a whole to bring the support for Sun2s into line with every other port, or to just retire the Sun2 port in general. Having to customise things for the sake of a port which is more than 20 years old seems to me to be getting our priorities wrong. Regards, Alistair