From: Martin Reindl <martin@catai.org>
Subject: Re: [wip new] geo/ncview
To: Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 20:55:48 +0200

Am 21.09.25 um 12:12 schrieb Marco van Hulten:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:14:14 +0200 Martin Reindl wrote:

Hi Marco,

> Does that mean the core CVS tree, as opposed to ports and packages?

Yes, is there something special with ncview which makes it incompatible
with clang?

> Right now it works with 8.4.0 that is in the ports tree.  I understand
> you'd prefer it to work with /usr/bin/cc.
> 
> There are many (types of) errors and warnings that that compiler
> throws.  I appears to me that the code could use improvements.  I have
> not been able to reach the author and I have to consider if I have
> sufficient time and skills to patch it up.
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes

This line from the configure script puzzles me, when using clang. There
seem to be more problems around with the configure script.

We can ask for OKs to get ncview imported with ports-gcc set, but it
might be better to fix configure first.