Re: platform-specific patches

[Ismael Luceno <ismael%iodev.co.uk@localhost>]

On 30/Dec/2024 11:06, Brook Milligan wrote:
>> On Dec 30, 2024, at 05:17, Ismael Luceno <ismael%iodev.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>> On 29/Dec/2024 21:42, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>>> The pkgsrc patches for Darwin x86_64 can easily be made a separate
>>> patchset and put on ftp.netbsd.org, and then only applied in the
>>> Darwin x86_64 case. That would solve this problem with minimal effort.
>> 
>> I wonder... How much effort would it be to make the patches universal?
> 
> The homebrew patchset for gcc12 is over 16k lines and hits 256 files.
> 
> I expect that integrating all of that into pkgsrc would be a lot
> of work and highly error prone.

That's obvious, but I wonder exactly how much.

What about GCC 15, are the changes upstreamed already?

> I also expect that supporting platform-specific patches within
> pkgsrc would be a more straightforward, and general, solution.

I'm not so sure it's sustainable, through history many GCC ports have
died because of this approach, why would it be different within pkgsrc?
(it may be even worse if we don't align with other communities)