Re: pkg/55217: devel/gobject-introspection breaks cwrappers LOCALBASE contains symlink

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/55217; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>
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Subject: Re: pkg/55217: devel/gobject-introspection breaks cwrappers
 LOCALBASE contains symlink
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:54:30 +0100

 * On 2020-04-29 at 15:45 BST, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 
 >  I think this should be enforced though (i.e. the pkgsrc Makefiles
 >  should complain).  Otherwise some packages work, others don't which
 >  is puzzling and seems like a mistake.
 
 The bootstrap script does check, but it looks like it only checks when
 the user has specified paths, not when they are using the defaults.
 
 I'd recommend just adding a new $prefix check after setting
 prefix=${HOME}/pkg.
 
 The problem with the simple fix of just moving all the checks down to
 after $prefix is set is that varbase=/var will fail the checks on
 macOS where it is a symlink to /private/var.
 
 I don't think having VARBASE be a symlink is a problem in practice,
 the primary concerns are LOCALBASE and WRKOBJDIR.
 
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 Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com