On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 03:16:42PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
My Alma 8 system doesn't have it at all outside of pkgsrc. Which raises
an even more important issue about relying on "system" libraries under
Linux: They may or may not exist in the first place, or may be outright
removed beyond the control of pkgsrc.
Yes, we don't want to depend on the "system" libraries on Linux.
Is this a naming misunderstanding?
My understanding of the various "system" configure args out there is
that they boil down to "something already present, do not build the
embedded one in my own distribution". In pkgsrc context "system" would
be pkgsrc, not the base system or some other package management.
Martin