On 2015-07-27, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > We're hurtling towards the 5.8 release and, as usual, ports and > packages on non-x86 platforms are in dire shape. > > If you want to put your money where your mouth is, take a look at recent > build logs and start fixing some of those problems. > http://build-failures.rhaalovely.net/ > sparc64, powerpc, alpha, hppa, ... > > Yes, this requires skill and effort.
Some of them probably don't require that much skill, just access to the machine arch and a little effort. Also look for BROKEN- in Makefiles. Unfortunately a lot of the errors in these build logs would just go away if the build was reattempted ("Error: job failed 256") so it's hard to spot which ports have real problems from the directory indices.