Re: pkg/41240: Perl5 build issue on opensolaris due to getconf

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41240; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, mvergall%telenet.be@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/41240: Perl5 build issue on opensolaris due to getconf
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:45:04 +0200 (CEST)

 > >Description:
 > getconf fails to work correctly on solaris & opensolaris so
 > don't use it when building perl. This gives warning's that are
 > easely fixed.
 
 Can you please describe in a bit more detail how it fails?  Does
 it only emit warnings during the build, or does it completely
 fail to build?  I don't have the environment to try this out
 myself.
 
 Best regards,
 
 - H=E5vard