The following reply was made to PR pkg/29065; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@planix.com>
To: salo@netbsd.org
Cc: pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org,
	NetBSD GNATS submissions and followups <gnats-bugs@netbsd.org>
Subject: Re: pkg/29065: one more patch needed for net/ethereal-0.10.9 for netbsd-1-6
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:20:07 -0500 (EST)

 [ 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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