[101595] trunk/dports/sysutils

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Jan 28 22:49:29 PST 2013


On Jan 28, 2013, at 19:05, Clemens Lang wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 06:35:34PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Jan 19, 2013, at 07:13, Clemens Lang wrote:
>>> Ryan, can you confirm it builds on PPC?
>> 
>> Once I removed the supported_archs line, it built fine on a PowerBook
>> G4 running Leopard. It produced its help message when I ran the
>> program with no arguments. I didn't test it further.
>> 
>> We should err on the optimistic side instead of the pessimistic side.
>> We should not exclude a port from installing on specific OS versions
>> or architectures unless we have a specific reason to do so.
> 
> Now that Ryan has confirmed that quotatool builds fine on PPC, do you
> want me to add that to the supported_archs line of the Portfile (or
> rather, remove it, since it's probably the default then anyway)?

You should remove the supported_archs line. Only add that line if you know (or have good reason to suspect) that a port does not build on some architecture.




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