Re: Sun2 shared libraries

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:50:22AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> 
>    On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:38:43AM +0000, Havard Eidnes wrote:
>    > Module Name:     src
>    > Committed By:    he
>    > Date:            Sun May 17 11:38:43 UTC 2009
>    > 
>    > Modified Files:
>    >  src/crypto/external/bsd/netpgp/bin: Makefile
>    > 
>    > Log Message:
>    > Add LDADD+= and DPADD+= settings so that this builds on sun2 as well,
>    > where we can't rely on shared libraries expressing the needs of the
>    > program.
>    
>    [This isn't specific to netpgp, I had the same discussion over
>    one of the other libraries that we have - agc]
>    
>    Once again, we come down to having to modify Makefiles for the sole
>    benefit of Sun2s. So I'll ask again - does anyone have one any more?
> 
> 
> the benefit is for static userland.  it just happens that sun2
> only supports that, but the sun2 part is irrelevant.

OK, thanks for the explanation.  That leads to the question about
supporting NOPIC userland, but it's probably best that I shut up now.

Thanks,
Al