reduce fails to build on 10.6

[Mark Brethen]

On Jan 6, 2012, at 8:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jan 6, 2012, at 20:07, Mark Brethen wrote:
>> On Jan 6, 2012, at 6:12 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>> On Jan 6, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>> We've already had a lengthy discussion about subports, variants, or everything in one port. subports would be a fine way to go, if it was desired to have separately installable ports. It sounded like Mark didn't think that would be of advantage, and because of #16373 it would be of disadvantage because the source, which is around 370MB, would have to be checked out from the project's repository twice.
>>> 
>>> ... which could be worked around by just making a tarball of the source that should be built (which is preferred over fetching the source via cvs/svn/git/whatever anyway) 
>> 
>> I don't follow you; are you saying to tarball after fetching from svn?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> What do you do with it then?
> 
> It could then be manually uploaded to our distfiles mirror, with the assistance of our Mac OS Forge administrator, and the portfile could be modified to fetch it. Then we could avoid the problems associated with fetching directly from a version control system.
> 
> 

This sounds reasonable for software that is stable. Reduce has been around since the 60s. It went open source a few years ago and is being worked on; it will be in a constant state of flux.

That's another reason for having a single portfile.

Mark