[kde-freebsd] libdraw-kder - no longer builds on gcck

[Bengt Ahlgren]

John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st> writes:

> On 6/9/2015 02:47, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:57:34PM +0200, John Marino wrote:
>
>>> Hi Sergey,
>>> Okay, we'll the maintainer is "kde@".
>>> kde4 is broken now on FreeBSD 8 and 9 (libdraw-kde4 takes out 50
>>> packages) so this is pretty serious.
>> 
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> if it's serious, it's up to maintainer to provide a fix for the
>> issue, this is open source world.
>> I'm not using KDE4, so, I don't think I can help in this case.
>
> I can't say I really agree with either sentiment here.
> Generally if one updates a port that others depend on, there is some
> responsibility for fallout.  It's not really fair to hold downstream
> ports accountable for others actions when they weren't even notified.
>
> Secondly, one doesn't have to run KDE4 to "help".  They only have to try
> to build libdraw-kde4 (a port KDE4 depends on).  Poudriere testport
> would preload it's requirements and and "-i" would give a prompt after
> the build.
>
> I don't use KDE4 either but I know it's possible to trouble this problem
> without it.
>
>
>> 
>>> I think chances are pretty good that this is a direct result (fallout)
>>> of updating libraw so we might be talking about a revert here.
>> 
>> Well, I don't think that's possible to revert back last changes for
>> libraw cause it was
>> security update.
>
> Well, sure it's possible.
>
> It's probably not the recommended approach -- it's probably better to
> make libkdraw-kde4 build with it, but I think all options are available.
>
> I think I'd even add a comment to libraw to not update again without
> confirming kde4 still builds.
>
> In the end, basically libkdraw-kde4 (or libraw) is missing a compiler
> flag.  It's probably an easy fix.  It's probably taking longer to write
> emails than it is to fix it.
>
> Later, I'm off to the airport now.

Alonso's patch to kdelibs fixed this issue for me:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200734

Bengt