[39093] trunk/dports/databases/freetds

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 8, 2008, at 05:36, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at ...> writes:
>
>> Looks like previously the patches were applied only for darwin 7, 8,
>> and 9. Now you're applying the changes to all operating systems. Are
>> these changes appropriate for operating systems other than Mac OS X?
>> Did you determine why the patches were previously only being applied
>> for darwin 7, 8, and 9?
>
> I was unable to determine why theses patches were needed.
> A short history:
> *) All traces of ${worksrcpath}/src/replacements/libreplacements.la
>     are removed from Makefiles
>     (henceforth known as the patches) for darwin 7 only (in r4268).
> *) patches extended to darwin 8 (in r3343).
>     This was part of a version update, and it was not entirely  
> clear why the
>     darwin 8 needed the patches.
> *) There was some discussion of removing the patches, but since  
> they weren't
>     causing problems, it was decided that they should stay (in  
> #10960).
> *) darwin 9 required glibtool, and the fix also included the  
> patches (in r30584).
>     It is possible that the darwin 7 platform was copied verbatim  
> without worrying
>     about whether everything was needed.
>
> freetds has been an orphan for three years.
> It is possible that the patches are not needed at all
> (freetds builds on my system without them).
>
> To answer your question, I can not see any reason why
> ${worksrcpath}/src/replacements/libreplacements.la
> would only be objectionable only on Mac OS X and not on other  
> platforms.

Good enough! Thanks. :)