Opened 11 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#37921 new enhancement

RFE: binutils's "notes" entry should specify which ports exactly it causes to fail to build

Reported by: cooljeanius (Eric Gallager) Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.1.2
Keywords: Cc: mojca (Mojca Miklavec)
Port: binutils

Description

Right now binutils comes with the following "notes" entry in its portfile:

"Having ${name} installed will cause some other ports to\
fail to build. Consider uninstalling ${name}."

I'd like to know which ports exactly these are, or at least have a link to a Trac ticket or something, so I can be better informed about whether I should actually follow this advice to uninstall it or not.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

According to "svn blame" I added this note to the portfile in r67114 in response to #22681 and #24617.

comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

So it's just due the assembler then? It looks like the current version of the binutils port no longer builds the assembler though...

comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by neverpanic (Clemens Lang)

Trace mode largely mitigates this problem anyway. If we keep the message, we should re-word it to encourage using port -t in case of build failures.

comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)

Cc: mojca added
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