Re: emulators/qemu: "bmake package" fails

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:

>> We can't just change the PLIST because obviously the PLIST was right for
>> the person who committed it, probably on netbsd-8.
>
> But I see a PLIST and a PLIST.Linux in the qemu directory.
>
> Shouldn't makefile pick the PLIST.Linux automatically or is it an
> option that I have to manually activate?

It should be automatic.  Or perhaps automatically additional (read the
mk files :-).

> I see in makefile:
>
> .elif ${OPSYS} == "Linux"
> USER_EMUL=              ${UE_ARCHS}
> PLIST.nbd=              YES
> PLIST.ivshmem=          YES
>
> Should I edit this bit and point it to PLIST.Linux ?

> I don't understand what these references to PLIST.nbd and
> PLIST.ivshmem are for, because they are not in the directory.

Those are not files, but variables.  Look in PLIST or PLIST.Linux, and
you will probably see

${PLIST.nbd}bin/qemu-nbd-foo

or something similar.  This is how conditional PLIST entries are
recorded and controlled.