[bind10-dev] FreeBSD port for BIND 10 available for testing

[Michael Sinatra]

On 09/30/11 16:03, Dan Mahoney wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Michael Sinatra wrote:
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>> On 09/30/11 12:28, Francis Dupont wrote:
>>>> ===>    Configuring for botan-1.8.11
>>>>     File "./configure.py", line 613
>>>>       except KeyError, e:
>>>>                      ^
>>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>
>>> =>   there is no mystery: botan requires a python 2 for its configuration
>>> and the script is run by a python 3. BTW the fix is easy: hack the botan
>>> config to use python 2.
>
> On the botan site, it claims that you can in fact run the configure script
> with python's 2to3 script -- I would suggest filing a ports bug to have
> them do this if the system python is "3", instead of pulling in python2.
> This is probably also a trivial patch for someone more familiar with
> makefiles than myself, to submit with the PR.

I fiddled with the 2to3 script for a while a couple months ago trying to 
build botan under python 3.1 and gave up.  I should probably try again 
because it is supposed to work.

>> I simply installed both python 2.7 and python 3.1 before building the port and
>> it compiled fine.  I was able to get BIND10 to build on a FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3
>> system using llvm/clang as the compiler.  One of the dependencies (log4cplus)
>> wouldn't build under clang, so I "downgraded" to gcc/g++ for that dependency
>> only.
>
> The benefits of having python2.7 on a system JUST to run a configure
> script are dubious at best, plus the added complication of having two full
> pythons installed, plus the extra build time.

There's enough other stuff in the ports collection that relies on python 
2 that a FreeBSD system with a reasonable set of packages will probably 
need python 2 anyway.  It's not a big deal for me.  That said, it would 
be nice if it could all work under python 3, but it may be a while for 
that to happen, given the 2 vs. 3 compatibility issues.

michael