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 10 Sep 2011, at 16:14, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> >
> > > On 10 Sep 2011, at 16:05, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> > > > > > 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.
> > >
> > > I'm afraid that without extra information nobody will be able to understand or fix your problem. A PR with 
> > > the "build.sh" command line, the contents of "/etc/mk.conf" and the output of 
> > > "printenv" would be a good start.
> >
> > I've already posted those before, so before I do it again I'm going to
> > try the build line from releng. Do you know what's in make.conf?
>
> No, not exactly. But this line worked for me today:
>
>         ./build.sh -O /path/to/objdir -u -U -j 16 -m i386 release
>
> You might want to prefix this with "MAKECONF=/foo" to make your sure that your "/etc/mk.conf" is 
> *not* used. You should also make sure that you don't set things like "CFLAGS", "LDFLAGS" etc. in 
> your shell environment.

I got it to work with the full build line from the autobuild. It used to
work without that line. In fact, I get it to work without -O on my i386
system, but not on my amd64 system.

I figure I'll just use the line with -O and not worry about it.

Thanks for the suggestions. It finally got me successfully building.

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