Re: math/R on Darwin 23.6.0/aarch64

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2026-06-30 at 15:03 BST, Makoto Fujiwara wrote:

> Recent bulkbuild for Darwin 23.6.0/aarch64 fails for math/R constantly.
>
> https://reports.pkgci.org/Darwin/14.5/arm64/20260628T113543Z/R-4.6.1/build.log
>  ....
> | installing parsed Rd
> | gmake[3]: Entering directory '/var/tmp/work/math/R/work/R-4.6.1/src/library'
> | Error: (converted from warning) DateTimeClasses.Rd:150: cannot open file '/var/db/timezone/zoneinfo/+VERSION': No such file or directory
> | Execution halted
> | gmake[3]: *** [Makefile:79: base.Rdts] Error 1
> | gmake[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>
> I've checked two Mac boxes and both have this file.

My macOS sandboxes have never had /var/db/timezone populated, so this 
must be a new failure.  No other packages have issues with this.

I'll see what I can do about creating it, but it feels wrong for 
any software to depend upon anything under /var/db for its build.

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