[Xastir] FreeBSD port for Xastir 2.1.4 submitted.

[Tom Russo]

At the moment, Xastir is completely unable to use IM7 and will likely remain
so until at least the next release (and maybe beyond) --- if you're interested
enough in the issues, go look at the github issue 
https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/148.  So discussing what
to do with the IM7 port in BSD is a little premature.

Really, Carl just needs to work through whether to make the default Xastir
build use GraphicsMagick as the 2.1.0 port was (which forces Xastir to be 
built with gcc8) or ImageMagick6 (which lets Xastir be built with clang, 
because some folks don't want gcc), or come up with a solution that allows 
this to be an option.  Either way, there is something inideal to it:  the GM 
solution forces gcc, the IM solution forces legacy IM 6 and may cause Xastir 
to conflict with any port that requires IM7.  Ick.

I would honestly suggest going with the GM option, even though it forces gcc.
This is likely to be the least painful solution, especially if IM 6 legacy
version is ever removed from the ports system, or lots of popular tools start
requiring IM7 before we can work out the substantial porting problems involved.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 05:02:00PM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <njm at njm.me.uk> flavor, containing:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Excuse me for butting in...
> 
> On Tuesday, July 16, 2019 19:40:42 -0600 Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> > Sorry for spamming BSD-Hams with this, but I've got more to report on the IM
> > issue.  And the original query about whether Xastir could use IM7 came 
> > through there.
> [...]
> 
> > I believe that the real reason I couldn't build Xastir with ImageMagick 7 is
> > not that IM7 is incompatible with IM 6, but that FreeBSD's ImageMagick 7 port
> > has HDRI support on by default, and no other IM port in the past had that.
> > 
> > Xastir is absolutely, positively, and totally incompatible with any version 
> > of ImageMagick that has HDRI support turned on, and probably will never be 
> > compatible with that option.
> 
> I could be completely wrong but...  How about creating a flavoured port
> of IM7 with HDRI disabled and Xastir can then depend on that.  I know
> very little about flavours, but thought that was one of the reasons for
> implementing it.  Of course it is entirely possible that I have mixed up
> flavours with sub ports, but you get the idea?
> 
> 
> 73,
> Nick.
> -- 
> 

-- 
Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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