Report created on Mon Nov 23 17:31:26 2009. back to main menu

Enter a new build error (partial match is ok) to get information about FreeBSD ports with that error:

Build error: 

For explanatory information and summary details, see the notes below.

portname maintainer build error logs Problem Reports Responsible
archivers/pecl-phar miwi@FreeBSD.org missing_header    
devel/pecl-spl_types glarkin@FreeBSD.org missing_header    
editors/openoffice.org-2 openoffice@FreeBSD.org missing_header 107229: sysutils/coreutils: gcp fails to set default ACL which causes OOo make failure openoffice
108313: editors/openoffice.org port build fails openoffice
japanese/expect [B] ports@FreeBSD.org missing_header    
lang/llvm-gcc4 [B] brooks@FreeBSD.org missing_header 127778: lang/llvm-gcc4: llvm can't create shared lib brooks
129224: ports/lang/llvm-gcc4 compilation error: .././../gcc/libgcc2.c: In function '__powixf2': .././../gcc/libgcc2.c:1765: internal co brooks
130335: Port lang/llvm-gcc4: .././../gcc/libgcc2.c: In function '__powixf2': .././../gcc/libgcc2.c:1765: internal compiler error: Abort brooks
net-mgmt/aircrack-ng lme@FreeBSD.org missing_header    
science/elmerpost scjamorim@bsd.com.br missing_header    
security/py-gnutls lwhsu@FreeBSD.org missing_header    
sysutils/lsof ler@lerctr.org ???
missing_header
   
textproc/bidiv [B] onatan@gmail.com missing_header    
ports shown: 10   ports with build errors: 10 ports with outstanding PRs: 2  
ports with either build errors or PRs: 10

Notes:

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The portname column includes links to a more complete overview for that port.

The maintainer column includes links to a page showing the status of all ports for that maintainer.

The build error logs column represents the list of unique errors noticed in any build environment (if any). The errors are listed alphabetically. Each entry is a link to a particular errorlog. (In cases where the same error occurs in multiple build environments, the latest errorlog is used.)

The list of build errors that are detected, and a short description of each one, can be found here.

The PRs (if any) for the given port are listed numerically in the Problem Reports column. Thus, for each port, they should also be in order from earliest to latest.

Currently, no effort is made to correlate any individual build error with any individual PR. They are listed in adjacent columns only for your viewing convenience.

The underlying technology of this report relies on trying to extract information from the existing GNATS database entries. These entries are entered by human users using the send-pr command. As such, the quality of the entries varies greatly.

The fastest, and easiest, information is gleaned from a GNATS entry whose subject line contains the port category and port name, separated by a slash. However, if this algorithm only flagged those, it would miss nearly 50% of the ports PRs, not to mention all the 'framework' PRs.

So, as an extension, various heuristics are used to guess what it is the user really intended. See the code in gnatsQueryUtils.py for the gory details. What's important to understand is this: there is no possible algorithm that will correctly identify all the ambiguous PRs without getting a few false identifications and still run in less than geological time. So, before you are tempted to file a PR on this algorithm itself, read the code to understand its design tradeoffs, and then consider instead filing followup PRs to the ambiguous PRs that would disambiguate them instead. Thanks -- the author.