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

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

Hello all,

I have finished compiling CDE for NetBSD/vax.

I didn't feel like patching libxslt and libxml, so I just used `gdb`
to wrap `xsltproc` and `xmllint` and handle the FPE. The FPE only
happened once when either program started, and telling `gdb` to just
ignore the FPE and allow the program to continue running worked.
Someone else can go through the trouble of patching libxml for VAX!

OpenSP compiled successfully as well, but during the build of CDE it
had a few segfaults, so I just copied the man pages and help files
from an i386 package.

CDE only partly works. I can `X -query` into `dtlogin` from a PC with
a screen, but `dtwm` and most other CDE programs fail with this error:
```
Unresolved inheritance operation
```
The stock X.Org app, `xman` fails in the same way when clicking on
"Manual Page".

Also, /usr/pkg/etc/dt mistakenly became /usr/pkg/usr/pkg/etc/dt. I
just linked it to the proper location.

Thank you!

On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 at 02:17, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost> writes:
>
> > Eh, I've seen this troublesome behaviour with x11-links too. What I do is
> > `cd' into the `x11-links' pkgsrc dir., run a `make distclean', then come back
> > to whatever I was trying to build.
> >
> > The pkgsrc people might have a better solution.
>
> IMHO it is an error to build a package with any stale working
> directories.  Don't do that.   In all seriousness, do something like "rm
> -rf */*/work".
>
> > I don't think the VAX has NAN (nor even IEEE-754 floating point capability).
>
> VAX floating point does not follow IEEE-754 (and I think it, or the
> PDP-11 fp that it is surely extended from, predates 754).
>
> Agreed that port-vax should be helpful.
>
> I remember the days when having your own uVAX-II was super cool!  I am
> curious if Monica is using real hardware or simh.
>