The following reply was made to PR pkg/31070; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: rnm@whoi.edu
Subject: Re: pkg/31070: circular dependency in pkgtools/x11-links
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:08:32 -0700 (PDT)

 > ===> Extracting for x11-links-0.26
 > ===> Required package x11-links>=0.25: NOT found
 > ===> Verifying reinstall for ../../pkgtools/x11-links
 > ===> Circular dependency detected
 
 x11-links includes "../../mk/x11.buildlink3.mk"
 
 This includes mk/x11.version.mk which sets:
 
 X11_TYPE?=              native
 X11_PKGSRCDIR.native=   ../../pkgtools/x11-links
 
 and mk/x11.version.mk does:
 .sinclude "${X11_PKGSRCDIR.${X11_TYPE}}/version.mk"
 
 I assume that it sets
 BUILTIN_X11_TYPE.native=        unknown
 
 And mk/x11.buildlink3.mk does:
 
 .sinclude "${X11_PKGSRCDIR.${X11_TYPE}}/buildlink3.mk"
 
   Jeremy C. Reed
 
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