Re: pkglint fails to build on NetBSD 5

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Were you using non-Go pkglint before, or did Go stop working?
In any case, a non-Go pkglint is available in pkgtools/pkglint4.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:46:25AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> I'm updating packages on a NetBSD 5 box and pkglint fails to build
> because of go14 Yes, I know that with the release of 7 (which is just
> yesterday in NetBSD release terms), pkgsrc no longer really supports 5.
> Were this some regular package, I wouldn't worry.  But for pkgsrc
> infrastructure, not supporting NetBSD 5 seems like a real problem.
> Hopefully this is just a built nit in go14 and easily fixed.
> 
> The go14 build fails with
> 
> ./make.bash: line 161: /u0/n0/ANONCVS/pkgsrc/lang/go14/work/go/pkg/tool/netbsd_386/go_bootstrap: Inappropriate file type or format
> 
> and funning file on it shows that it's a binary for a later version of the OS.
> 
> ./work/go/pkg/tool/netbsd_386/go_bootstrap: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (NetBSD), statically linked, for NetBSD 5.99, not stripped
> 
> The machine is "NetBSD 5.2_STABLE (XEN3PAE_DOMU)" and is more or less
> up-to-date with netbsd-5.  It otherwise works fine.
> 
> Following the modern trend, the build output is not useful because the
> actual commands are omitted :-(
> 
> Can any of the go people explain?



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