Re: How to get pkgsrc to use builtin/native libraries?

[Monica Vaida <vaidamonica587%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello again,

I just finished successfully compiling Motif. `mwm` runs and works as
expected displaying on an X server over the network (Wayland could
never).

I am not very familiar with NetBSD or pkgsrc, so I might be
misunderstanding the way you do things, but I think the problem was in
the package `pkgtools/x11-links`. It is supposed to contain symlinks
to the built-in X, right? But, at least on my VAX, the links to
freetype2 were all missing; the libraries, headers, and the pkgconf
`.pc` files.

If it's meant to be that way, please tell me, but if it's a real bug,
please report it. As I said above, I am not very familiar with NetBSD,
so it would be better if someone else made the report.

Now, I am trying to build libxslt, xmlto, and opensp, so that I can
compile CDE. Building libxslt failed due to NAN not being defined on
VAX. I added `#define NAN 0.0` to the two files causing the errors,
`libexslt/math.c` and `libexslt/date.c`, and was able to install
libxslt. Trying to build xmlto with the modified libxslt failed with a
floating point exception in `xsltproc`. Would any of you know how to
get it to build?

Thank you.

On Sat, 25 Apr 2026 at 02:11, RVP <rvp%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2026, Monica Vaida wrote:
>
> >> Did you install all the X11 sets during install?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
>
> Well, I built CDE on both 10.1_STABLE/amd64 and 11.0_RC3/i386 and it built
> fine using only the system freetype/fontconfig (and, no cmake/python deps.).
> Testing on 11.0_RC3/i386, CDE ran just fine too--but with the std. X11 bitmap
> fonts (I don't know anything about CDE, so I don't know how to customize it
> to use TTF fonts...) in the UI.
>
> Don't know why it's not working on the VAX (never even *seen* a VAX IRL!).
> Might fire up SIMH to investigate--if I have the time.
>
> >> Ask on pkgsrc-users@ for fine tuning all this...
> >
> > I will go do that now, hopefully it is ok to post on both lists.
> >
>
> I'm not on any of the pkgsrc MLs so that would be useful.
>
> > If you have any more ideas pleasw reply!
> >
>
> You can try the patch below. Since the system freetype *is* built with brotli
> (for compressed WOFF2 files), this less disruptive patch should work. I haven't
> built CDE again with this, but `make show-var VARNAME=USE_BUILTIN.freetype'
> says `yes'.
>
> ```
> diff -urN pkgsrc.orig/graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk pkgsrc/graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk
> --- pkgsrc.orig/graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk        2024-08-18 19:54:53.000000000 +0000
> +++ pkgsrc/graphics/freetype2/buildlink3.mk     2026-04-24 22:52:21.983264419 +0000
> @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
>   .if !defined(FREETYPE2_BUILDLINK3_MK)
>   FREETYPE2_BUILDLINK3_MK:=
>
> -BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.freetype2+=      freetype2>=2.13.0
> -BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.freetype2+=      freetype2>=2.13.2nb1
> +BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.freetype2+=      freetype2>=2.10.0
> +BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.freetype2+=      freetype2>=2.10.2nb1
>   BUILDLINK_PKGSRCDIR.freetype2?=               ../../graphics/freetype2
>   BUILDLINK_INCDIRS.freetype2?=         include/freetype2
>
> @@ -21,10 +21,6 @@
>   pkgbase := freetype2
>   .include "../../mk/pkg-build-options.mk"
>
> -.if ${PKG_BUILD_OPTIONS.freetype2:Mbrotli}
> -.include "../../archivers/brotli/buildlink3.mk"
> -.endif
> -
>   .if ${PKG_BUILD_OPTIONS.freetype2:Mpng}
>   CHECK_BUILTIN.freetype2:=     yes
>   .include "../../graphics/freetype2/builtin.mk"
> @@ -35,6 +31,12 @@
>   .  endif
>   .endif
>
> +.if ${PKG_BUILD_OPTIONS.freetype2:Mbrotli}
> +.  if ${USE_BUILTIN.freetype2:tl} != yes
> +.    include "../../archivers/brotli/buildlink3.mk"
> +.  endif
> +.endif
> +
>   .endif # FREETYPE2_BUILDLINK3_MK
>
>   BUILDLINK_TREE+=      -freetype2
> ```
>
> -RVP