Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked broken

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From
Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com>
Date
17 Aug 2008 21:36:34
Subject
Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked broken
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:32 AM,  <linimon@freebsd.org> wrote:
> As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in
> the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically notify users of ports
> that are marked as "broken" in their Makefiles. [...]

> portname: japanese/lyx
> broken because: Does not compile with GCC 4.2
> build errors: none.
> overview: http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/portoverview.py?category=japanese&portname=lyx

I suggest to remove this port. Lyx 1.0.3 will unlikely compile with
recent versions of GCC. We better to concentrate on updating the
print/lyx package whose version (1.4.5.1) is far behind the current
version of LyX (1.5.6) that supports 23 languages, according to

http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_5_6.txt

(CC to the LyX maintainer)

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