Re: pkg/55593: Proposed modification to buildlink3.mk of libxml2

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/55593; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
	you.kawasaki%gmail.com@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/55593: Proposed modification to buildlink3.mk of libxml2
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 15:55:32 +0200

 On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 09:25:02AM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
 >  So why do we bother having BUILDLINK_INCDIRS in the first place?  What
 >  problems are we solving by having to patch every leaf instead of just
 >  fixing this in the infrastructure like we do for everything else?
 >  What possible side-effects are there of adding include/libxml2 for
 >  _only the configured libxml2_ to the search path?  It's not like we're
 >  going to accidentally find some incompatible libz in there or
 >  something...
 
 Did you read what I said why this is failing in first place? All sane
 build systems work fine because they use pkg-config already. This #$%#$%
 is singular shit by deciding that Linux must have things in /usr/include
 and hard-coding that. So no, I do not want to penalize everything
 everywhere just for the sake of one or two crappy packages.
 
 Joerg