Re: pkg/53836: termcap not working on ppc64 linux

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/53836; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/53836: termcap not working on ppc64 linux
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:43:38 +0100

 Hello Thomas,
 
 stenstorpmc%gmail.com@localhost writes:
 > [...]
 > >Description:
 > In package makefiles that include '.include
 > "../../mk/termcap.buildlink3.mk"' configure scripts say that the
 > "C compiler cannot create executables".
 > In the config log at the compiler checking stage it states: "cc:
 > Invalid transform rule: l:termcap:" causing the build to fail.
 > I have seen that this occurs on, at least, the readline and
 > gettext-tools packages.
 >
 > This also occurs on Debian Jessie on real hardware and in qemu
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > (On ppc64(big endian) Linux)
 >
 > cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/readline
 > bmake
 >
 > [build should fail with compiler cannot create executables]
 > [...]
 
 Not sure if it can be related but probably worth to double-check,
 have you installed the (Debian) packages suggested in
 pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.Linux?
 
 
 Thanks!