Re: pkg/45265

["Filip Hajny" <filip%joyent.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/45265; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Filip Hajny" <filip%joyent.com@localhost>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Clausen?= <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>
Cc: <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>,
        "David Holland" <dholland-pbugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>,
        <solaris-pkg-people%NetBSD.org@localhost>,
        <pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: pkg/45265
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:41:35 +0200

 On 15. 8. 2012, at 11:17, J=F6rn Clausen 
<joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost> w=
 rote:
 
 > On 15.08.12 00:15, David Holland wrote:
 >>  The original report says it's necessary when using the Sun linker;
 >>  shouldn't part of the conditional test for that?
 >=20
 > If you find a method to test for the linker, you'd have solved a long sta=
 nding problem in a lot of packages. There are several places like this, whe=
 re a test for the compiler is actually used to guess the linker.
 
 +1
 
 Also note that the aforementioned patch is no longer needed for the Sun lin=
 ker that ships with Illumos.
 
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