Subject: Re: automatic shared library handling failure on arm32
To: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/29/2001 08:10:12
On Jan 29,  9:39am, agc@pkgsrc.org (Alistair Crooks) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: automatic shared library handling failure on arm32

I don't think that the changes have been pulled up. I'll make a request
now.

christos

| David Forbes found the bug on the arm32 port originally.  Christos has
| committed the changes to file(1) in -current, and, I believe, made the
| changes to the file(1) distribution. I *think* the changes have been
| pulled up to 1.5.1, but please don't quote me on that.
| 
| I'd prefer it to be fixed by using file(1) properly, but, in view of the
| fact that (a) we need to keep a "none" category for potential new ports
| which don't yet have toolchain support for shared libraries, and (b) it's
| borked on arm32 on 1.5, I think the change should be made to bsd.pkg.mk
| 
| Regards,
| Alistair
-- End of excerpt from Alistair Crooks