>> In all seriousness, the best advice is to update to NetBSD 9. Things
>> in 8 are starting to get crufty if you want to build things in the
>> desktop/c++ world. (If you just want it to do what it did a year ago,
>> it's rock solid.)
>
> I have now updated to NetBSD 9_Stable
> And still no joy compiling MesaLib under latest pkgsource/HEAD 2021.1.16
> NetBSD 9_Stable, amd64
After a great suggestion, I also updated X. I do not use this machine
interactively, but X does include a builtin version of MesaLib.
This alone did not solve the issue until I added:
PREFER_BUILTIN+=MesaLib
to /etc/mk.conf
MesaLibe was being called as a dependency (to a dependency) for
graphics/ImageMagic
that I wanted for a plugin to a WordPress install I am hosting locally...
Once I updated X and added MesaLib builtin to mk.conf, I could build
ImageMagic
without building the pkgsrc version of MesaLib.
Based on how pkgsrc MesaLib build failed, I still suspect something is
broken with the package, but with this workaround, I no longer care.
Sorry, it won't help with your problem, but i was wondering why graphics/ImageMagick should depend on MesaLib.
I checked again and don't see it being a dependency.
Regards,
Connor