Subject: Re: solaris8 and graphics/xpm
To: MLH <mlh@goathill.org>
From: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/03/2003 09:40:21
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:41:48AM -0500, MLH wrote:

> I'm running current bootstrap-pkgsrc with /usr/pkg/bin/bmake
> and CC=/usr/pkg/gcc-2.95.3/bin/cc set in /etc/mk.conf.

fyi, you can have pkgsrc DTRT with gcc2 by just defining USE_GCC2 in
/etc/mk.conf. this ensures that the right rpath is passed to the
linker when gcc shared libraries are required.

> BTW, I'm seeing a lot of problems in pkgsrc for Solaris whose
> solutions are not at all obvious to me. I see that pkgsrc is going
> through some big changes that have hosed pkgsrc generation even
> for major packages with NetBSD-current, so should I wait a while
> before I start mentioning them, and should I file pr's - when I
> don't really have a clue what the problem is?

it probably is worth sending a PR, yes.

g.