===== Mark Linimon's Ports Gripes =====

Given infinite time and resources, these are the things that [[/MarkLinimon|MarkLinimon]] would like to see fixed.

==== Tree-Wide Regressions ====

  * fallout from [[https://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/tmp/regresslogs.out.html|clang update in base]]
    * duplicate_symbol
    * **-f-no-common**

  * [[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246700|default GCC version update in ports]]
    * Fortran regressions (especially on powerpc64)

  * **ld: error: undefined symbol: sbrk**

==== Refactoring Needed ====

  * [[/HardcodedCCVersions]]
  * need a USES for clang, which would fix:
    * [[/HardcodedLLVMVersions]]
  * need to move **bsd.gcc.mk** to **Mk/Uses/gcc.mk**

==== Poor Usages ====

  * [[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214778|Overriding the string ARCH]], which ought to be considered sacred to the ports framework
  * Overriding the string **LLVM_DEFAULT**, which ought to be considered sacred to the ports framework
  * Ports that stomp on the Makevar values of CC_*, CXX_*, LD_*, and so on

==== Creeping Dependencies ====

  * heavy dependencies that creep in via **TEST_DEPENDS** (especially painful for riscv64 right now)
  * expensive docs dependencies even for trivial ports
  * rust has now crept into every desktop environment via spidermonkey78
  * x11 libraries

==== Too Many Compilers In The Tree ====

  * [[/ObsoleteLLVMVersions]]

==== See Also ====

  * [[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?component=Individual%20Port%28s%29&component=Package%20Infrastructure&component=Ports%20Framework&email1=linimon%40&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=substring&list_id=390526&product=Ports%20%26%20Packages&query_format=advanced&resolution=---|All Open Ports PRs submitted by MarkLinimon]]