re: port-arm/48215: pkg_add fails on recent NetBSD/evbearmv6hf-el current

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-arm/48215; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: port-arm-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, ryoon%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: re: port-arm/48215: pkg_add fails on recent NetBSD/evbearmv6hf-el 
current
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:19:45 +1000

 >  On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 03:15:00PM +0000, Matt Thomas wrote:
 >   >  > It's probably better to try to arrange the build so MACHINE_ARCH
 >   >  > contains the right string.
 >   >  >
 >   >  > calling sysctl directly will probably make for compile-time fun on
 >   >  > Solaris and other legacy platforms.
 >   >  
 >   >  So conditionalize it with #ifdef NETBSD_SOURCE / #endif=
 >  
 >  Or maybe fix it right?
 >  
 >  The build inherits MACHINE_ARCH from the environment, which gets it
 >  from the nbmake wrapper. If it's wrong there, that seems like a bug.
 
 this has to do with the value exportd by <sys/param.h>, not
 the value set by the build.
 
 since these binaries are always going to report the same value,
 i suspect that fixing arm/param.h to report the right value
 depending on the compiler options would fix the problem without
 having to patch every program that uses them to use sysctl on
 netbsd...
 
 
 .mrg.