The following reply was made to PR pkg/29430; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: almeyers@consult-meyers.com
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/29430: package games/rocksndiamonds fails to install
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:36:48 -0800 (PST)

 On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, A L Meyers wrote:
 
 > [alm@localhost pkgsrc]$ which id
 > /bin/id
 > [alm@localhost pkgsrc]$ type id
 > id is /bin/id
 >
 > Should I symlink /bin/id to /usr/bin/id or is there
 > a more universal solution for "most" systems?
 
 The Pkgsrc solution for Linux is to be defined in
 pkgsrc/mk/platforms/Linux.mk
 
 Index: mk/platform/Linux.mk
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/mk/platform/Linux.mk,v
 retrieving revision 1.8
 diff -b -u -r1.8 Linux.mk
 --- mk/platform/Linux.mk	28 Jan 2005 21:05:59 -0000	1.8
 +++ mk/platform/Linux.mk	17 Feb 2005 19:35:20 -0000
 @@ -67,7 +67,11 @@
  HEAD?=		/usr/bin/head
  .endif
  HOSTNAME_CMD?=	/bin/hostname
 +.if exists(/bin/id)
 +ID?=		/bin/id
 +.else
  ID?=		/usr/bin/id
 +.endif
  IMAKE?=		${X11BASE}/bin/imake ${IMAKEOPTS}
  IMAKEOPTS+=	-DBuildHtmlManPages=NO
  LDCONFIG?=	/sbin/ldconfig
 
 
 Can you try to add the above to your mk/platform/Linux.mk ?
 
 And try your games/rocksndiamonds install (may need to do a "make
 clean" first) again?
 
 
  Jeremy C. Reed
 
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