Re: pkg/42971: x11/libxcb sports undeclared dependency on "xau"

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42971; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>
Subject: Re: pkg/42971: x11/libxcb sports undeclared dependency on "xau"
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:16:52 +0000

 On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:20:05PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
  >>>  Even if it is modified to create fake pkgconfig files correctly, the
  >>>  XFree86 in NetBSD 4 is way too old.
  >>  
  >>  Right, well, shouldn't it reject the builtin version then, like other
  >>  builtin logic does?
  >  
  >  That's not really going to help if it means mixing different shared
  >  library versions. Ultimately it just means someone has to care enough
  >  about ancient/native X11 to do the work and I am not the person to do
  >  that.
 
 I know X is a mess, but I don't see that it's really different from
 needing a new-enough version of any other package... if the pkgsrc
 libXau needs a newer libX11 than the builtin one it should go ahead
 and build the libX11 from pkgsrc and nothing should get mixed. It's
 possible that we might want X11_TYPE==native to explicitly fail this;
 but then you'd get a sane error message out.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost