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Re: Why did devel/bison grow a dependency on xz?



On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 08:18:52AM -0500, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> 
> David Brownlee writes:
> - The GCC_REQD=3.4 does make it much more expensive on older NetBSD
> - versions - out of curiosity does it fail to build or at runtime if you
> - try to build it with the builtin compiler?

Note that xz only requires gcc >= 3 because it has variable declaration
intermixed with other stuff.

Since gcc2 is unlikely to grow that feature, fixing that in xz would be nice,
and would be likely to be useful out of pkgsrc...


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