On 2022/02/28 12:40, Volker Schlecht wrote: > > > > Volker Schlecht <openbsd-po...@schlecht.dev> wrote: > > > > It uses fork instead of posix_spawn ... both OpenBSD and FreeBSD remove > > > > that line in their ports, though. NetBSD keeps it as it is. > > > > > > > > It was added by upstream 8 years ago, and the comment refers to > > > > posix_spawn being new to BSDs at the time. > > > > so that part of the patch can probably be garbage-collected now? > > Not quite. The configuration from *upstream* wants to use fork instead of > posix_spawn, and they made that decision 8 years ago. > > Our own patch reverts that upstream configuration and makes it use > posix_spawn instead. FreeBSD has a patch to the same effect: > > https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/lang/nim/files/patch-config-nim.cfg > > Unless we have a problem with posix_spawn, I'd keep it in. >
Ah I misread it. That's fine then. op@, OK with the PORTHOME change suggested by tb.
