Re: pkg/56186: libarchive: fix dirfd() check

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/56186; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/56186: libarchive: fix dirfd() check
Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 18:09:21 +0000

 On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:05:01PM +0000, nia wrote:
  > 
  >  On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:40:00PM +0000, lehel.bernadt%oneidentity.com@localhost wrote:
  >  > I was trying to build software on AIX 6.1 that pulled in archivers/liba$
  >  
  >  I think we'd rather avoid diffs against libarchive because we don't
  >  maintain it. This could likely also be fixed with a
  >  CONFIGURE_ENV.AIX override.
 
 I think it's reasonable for cases like this to carry patches in
 patches/ against the sources in files/, unless there's some
 infrastructure reason not to that I'm not aware of.
 
 (anyway also please send the fix upstream)
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost