Re: pkg/46037

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46037; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/46037
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:55:25 +0100

 On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 04:20:04PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/46037; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/46037
 > Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:16:06 +0100
 > 
 >  On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:55:02PM +0000, OBATA Akio wrote:
 >  > The following reply was made to PR pkg/46037; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >  > 
 >  > From: "OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>
 >  > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 >  > Cc: 
 >  > Subject: Re: pkg/46037
 >  > Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:51:34 +0900
 >  > 
 >  >  On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:50:05 +0900, Bernd Ernesti 
 > <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost> wrote:
 >  >  
 >  >  >  IMHO these defines should not be protected at all by $osvers because
 >  >  >  this check is always true due too the check for all available NetBSD
 >  >  >  versions.
 >  >  
 >  >  Do you think that those reentrant functions will not be implemented 
 > forever?
 
 I had no idea that they are already implented since there is no man page 
reference
 to them.
 
 >  getprotoent_r and friends do exist. The point is that the check as is is
 >  pointless. So what does Perl really want to do here?
 
 Hmm, i haven't checked the script and what it does, but just adding 6.*
 looked wrong since it would always be true because of the checks for
 NetBSD 0.9 till 6.*.
 
 It looks like we got the reentrant functions with NetBSD 2.0 so hints/netbsd.sh
 should be changed to reflect this fact.
 
 Bernd