The following reply was made to PR pkg/35433; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dan McMahill <dmcmahill@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/35433: PKGSRC_COMPILER (1 vs list) and libtool
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:26:07 -0500

 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/35433; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/35433: PKGSRC_COMPILER (1 vs list) and libtool
 > Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:34:25 +0100
 > 
 >  On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:35:00PM +0000, dmcmahill@NetBSD.org wrote:
 >  > Currently it is not clear from some of the pkgsrc documentation if
 >  > PKGSRC_COMPILER is only allowed to be a single setting like
 >  > 
 >  > PKGSRC_COMPILER=gcc
 >  > or
 >  > PKGSRC_COMPILER=sunpro
 >  > 
 >  > or if you can give a list in order of preference like
 >  
 >  To quote the guide:
 >  This  is  a  list  of values specifying the chain of compilers to invoke
 >  when building packages.
 >  
 >  I think that is quite clear.
 
 ah, I stand corrected.  That is quite clear.  Unfortunately it doesn't 
 work as stated :)  Hence the patches and the pr about libtool...
 
 -Dan