Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:23:13 +0900, Dan McMahill 
<dmcmahill%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On 5/9/2013 8:49 PM, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> > Module Name:    pkgsrc
> > Committed By:   riastradh
> > Date:           Fri May 10 00:49:00 UTC 2013
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >         pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install: Makefile
> >
> > Log Message:
> > Fix cross-build of pkgtools/pkg_install.
> >
> > Can't execute the newly built tools if they were cross-built.
> >
> > (This is not especially useful until we do cross-bootstrap, though.)
> >
> > ok agc
> >
> >
> > To generate a diff of this commit:
> > cvs rdiff -u -r1.194 -r1.195 pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/Makefile
>
> Hello,
>
> I went to build a new pkg_install this evening on an older (5.1) NetBSD
> machine and it seems that this commit is causing make to give me a
> malformed conditional on the line which was changed.  To be honest, I do
> not understand why the change should be causing any grief.  Maybe there
> is a bug in this version of make.

It should be fixed now, variables must be defined before using modifiers for
variables during evaluation of conditionals, it's a Bug.

I don't know it is a bug in 5.1's one or current one, but current one
cannot catch such `a Bug'.

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