Re: Advice sought: which X11 for NetBSD 5.* (going forward) ??

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 08:12:41AM -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >
> > > > netbsd-5 branch is 100% irrelevant unless NetBSD 5.2 ever appears)
> > > > that is likely to make it worth the effort of recompiling everything
> > > > from pkgsrc that's X related to do the switch?
> > >
> > > (I don't see any reason to run 5.1 release instead of head of netbsd-5,
> > > but I don't think that matters in this case.)
> >
> > Just as a personal answer to this question, it is because netbsd-5 does
> > not build for me. I have complained and filed prs ...
>
> Which PRs are those?
>
> > ... and no one seems to care or be able to duplicate the problem.
> > 5.1.0 build. 5 does not.
>
> I think it is matter for not being able to reproduce it. The last
> two auto builds worked fine:
>
>         http://releng.netbsd.org/builds/netbsd-5/201109041000Z/
>         http://releng.netbsd.org/builds/netbsd-5/201109062240Z/
>
> And I personally build NetBSD/i386 from the "netbsd-5" branch this
> morning which worked without problems.

Perhaps I gave up after no one could reproduce the issue and never filed
a PR. Especially since the thread degenerated into something that wasn't
addressing my problem.

My source tree is NFS mounted. I remember when null mounts would break
the build in the past. I wonder if that's the difference in my setup.

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