[mosh-devel] Mosh 1.2.5 release candidate 2 available for testing

[john hood]

On 7/3/15 1:51 AM, john hood wrote:
> On 7/2/15 8:43 PM, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, mosh-1.2.4.95rc2 builds and works fine on OpenBSD-current, amd64
>> and sparc64 architectures.  This update[1] means that most tweaks and
>> patches are now unneeded in the OpenBSD ports framework.
> 
> Thanks for the report!  The port looks pretty good to me.  The one thing
> that I notice is that Mosh needs Perl libraries for IPv6.  It would
> prefer to use IO::Socket::IP for IPv6, if available, or it can fall back
> to IO::Socket::INET6.  So your port should depend on one of these.
> 
>> There is one remaining patch, related to ARM assembly support.  Since
>> gas on OpenBSD/arm has recently gained support for more opcodes, this
>> patch[2] may now be unneeded.  No idea yet.
> 
> Given that mosh compiles and runs on my Raspberry Pi with
> FreeBSD-CURRENT on an RPi, which has an ARMv6 CPU, I would guess it is a
> gas issue.
> 
>> PS: will we have to regen autoconf/make files for 1.2.5-release?
> 
> Since you're fetching the distribution tarball, you don't have to.

Looking more closely, I see you already changed the port to use Github's
automatic release-tag tarballs, and we need to figure out where to put
our distribution tarballs.  I or Keith will have a better answer for you
once we figure this out.

regards,

  --jh