Subject: Re: pkg/32801: gtk2 initial configuration problem on IRIX
To: None <irix-pkg-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Stuart Shelton <stuart@zeus.com>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 03/18/2006 14:30:02
The following reply was made to PR pkg/32801; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Stuart Shelton <stuart@zeus.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: pkg/32801: gtk2 initial configuration problem on IRIX
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:26:35 +0000
I've now found the solution to this problem:
The IRIX-default nawk will only read in a string of up to a fixed length
(regardless of the value of the ncargs system tunable), and with then
fail with an "Input record... too long" error.
The solution is to edit mk/tools/tools.IRIX.mk to specify an alternative
(BSD or GNU) awk binary.
This means that the /only/ way this package (and many others: pango,
rsync, etc.) to work correctly on IRIX is for some base-level package
(bmake?) - and all other utilities which depend on awk processing long
strings - to depend on pkgsrc (g)awk, and then use this as the IRIX
default awk implementation...