[ On Monday, January 31, 2005 at 22:56:44 (+0000), salo@netbsd.org wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: pkg/29065
>
> Synopsis: one more patch needed for net/ethereal-0.10.9 for netbsd-1-6
> 
> It should be possible to compile ethereal with gcc 2.x now, thanks.

thank you!

> I don't understand why your patch added dependency on GNU make,

Everything that has GNU Automake generated Makefiles _should_ use GNU
Make as there is an ever growing amount of GNU Make feature use in
automake-created makefils; and there's no excuse not to within pkgsrc
where doing so is this trivial.

> nor
> how the LDSTATIC change is related to the problem you reported.

It's not -- that's just how I configure a package to build dynamically
in any of my otherwise mostly static environments.

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