Hello, Following the links on the ports tasks wiki page I found 'obskurator' to be a wanted port (http://wiki.freebsd.org/AndrewPantyukhin/Ports) so I gave it a try and report about it here.
obskurator is supposed to obfuscate source code by changing variable names. Home page for the project is: http://obskurator.sourceforge.net. The port I prepared for obskurator can be found here: ftp://culot.org/FreeBSD/obskurator.shar The above port installed obskurator fine for me (8.1-RELEASE on amd64), but I believe the software itself is unusable and should not be added to the ports tree in its current state. Indeed, I wrote a simple code to test the resulting obfuscated program generated by obskurator and it would not compile. Here is my test code: ----- #include <stdio.h> int my_int1; int main (void) { char *my_txt1 = "Hello world"; printf ("first var: %d\n", my_int1); printf ("second var: %s\n", my_txt1); return 0; } ----- and obskurator transformed it into the following: ----- #include <stdio.h> int my_int1; int main (void) { char *x1 = "Hello world"; x2 ("first var: %d\n", my_int1); x2 ("second var: %s\n", x1); return 0; } ----- That is obskurator believed printf(3) was a user-defined variable and replaced it with 'x2', which makes the resulting program impossible to compile. As a conclusion I would say that 'obskurator' should be removed from the wanted port page at http://wiki.freebsd.org/AndrewPantyukhin/Ports as it does not manage to generate compilable obfuscated code as it claims to do. Hope this helps, Frederic _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
