[Openmcl-devel] CCL 1.12 - Patch Available for FreeBSD Ports

[Sean Champ]

If anyone else may be using CCL on FreeBSD, I've published a patch for 
FreeBSD ports such that allows for installing CCL 1.12 under FreeBSD 
ports. The patch has been entered into the formal FreeBSD ports Q/A 
system
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245941


The patch for FreeBSD ports is available in the thinkum-sys FreeBSD 
ports contrib mirror, under a patch branch 
[ci/patch-lang-ccl-new-release]
https://github.com/thinkum-sys/freebsd-ports/tree/ci/patch-lang-ccl-new-release

The patch is contained entirely in the present head changeset on that 
branch:
https://github.com/thinkum-sys/freebsd-ports/commit/75846d50b777e54d08233d03ea17d3fb3dc090af

The changelog contains some description of the patch, similar to the 
content of the initial announcement under FreeBSD bugzilla.


The patch has been merged into the [thinkum] development branch at the 
same ports contrib mirror
https://github.com/thinkum-sys/freebsd-ports/tree/thinkum

Although I cannot guarantee any ongoing updates to that contrib mirror, 
I believe that the patch branch itself should be generally applicable 
without further merging, at least until any next update in the lang/ccl 
port under FreeBSD ports. The [thinkum] branch itself - with no 
warranty, typical indemnification clauses, etc - seems to build OK under 
FreeBSD 12.1 amd64 at least so far as for ports I've built locally, 
under local make.conf and related files. It is not up-to-date with 
regards to the FreeBSD upstream [master] branch, at this time.

Personally, I'm trying to limit local port updates across approximately 
a quarterly duration. The [thinkum] branch should be merged for a newer 
FreeBSD ports [master] branch at GitHub, after any subsequent local 
ports update, as such.


As one limitation to the patch: Absent of any cross-compiling support in 
the port, as yet, it may only build on amd64 - that being the arch for 
which there is an initial bootstrap compiler available, in a CCL 
distribution 1.12 for FreeBSD. Candidly, I'm not certain if there is any 
single, formal and/or recommended convention for cross-compiling under 
FreeBSD ports - juxtaposed to any formal conventions supported for 
cross-building under the FreeBSD base system. Pursuant of any more 
concrete idea and subsequent testing for an approach to that much, 
insofar as for C/C++/ObjC programs, hopefully it may be fairly 
straightforward to cross-compile the "C parts" under clang (or GCC) and 
to cross-build the CCL image separately, on FreeBSD, under an amd64 
host.

The patched port has been tested, to a limited extent, on a FreeBSD 12.1 
amd64 machine, under SLIME.


Health,


- Sean Champ