Subject: Re: Argument list too long while buildlinking; are any walk-arounds possible?
To: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/04/2004 21:30:21
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:29:36AM +0100, Michal Pasternak wrote:
> Michal Pasternak [Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 03:56:14AM +0100]:
> > 	.include "../../devel/boost/buildlink2.mk" 
> 
> ... and I would like to add, that it's the boost package's buildlink2.mk, which
> causes so much trouble (I have been able to compile packages as kdelibs3 or
> py-gtk2 without any problems on FreeBSD). Are there any reasons, that its
> buildlink2.mk includes ${LOCALBASE}/include/boost/* and not just, for
> example, only the directory? Is it really different to create symlinks for
> all .h files instead of symlinking the directory?

FWIW, I've made some changes to bsd.buildlink3.mk so that this problem
shouldn't occur.  If someone has the time to backport the fix into
bsd.buildlink2.mk (which should be fairly easy), please go ahead.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>