CVS commit: pkgsrc/doc/guide/files

["David H. Gutteridge" <gutteridge%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   gutteridge
Date:           Mon Aug  8 01:54:32 UTC 2022

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/doc/guide/files: fixes.xml

Log Message:
fixes.xml: add a small section about atomic64.mk


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cvs rdiff -u -r1.181 -r1.182 pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml

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Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml
diff -u pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml:1.181 pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml:1.182
--- pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml:1.181      Sat Jul 23 06:45:32 2022
+++ pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/fixes.xml    Mon Aug  8 01:54:32 2022
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $NetBSD: fixes.xml,v 1.181 2022/07/23 06:45:32 wiz Exp $ -->
+<!-- $NetBSD: fixes.xml,v 1.182 2022/08/08 01:54:32 gutteridge Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="fixes"> <?dbhtml filename="fixes.html"?>
 <title>Making your package work</title>
@@ -1958,7 +1958,17 @@ of functions.</para>
 
 </sect3>
 
-  </sect2>
+<sect3 id="undefined-reference-atomic">
+  <title>Missing atomic functions</title>
+  
+  <para>When building for older machine architectures (e.g., i386, PowerPC),
+  builds may fail because the package expects modern 64-bit atomic functions
+  which the underlying hardware either doesn't support, or will only support
+  with specific compiler flags. This is generally handled via inclusion of
+  mk/atomic64.mk.</para>
+</sect3>
+
+</sect2>
 
   <sect2 id="out-of-memory">
     <title>Running out of memory</title>