Re: devel/gtexinfo dependency on xsubpp

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

> On Sep 17, 2019, at 10:42 PM, Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 05:31:15PM -0600, Brook Milligan wrote:
>> I am trying to build the devel/gtexinfo package on a machine that seems not to have xsubpp installed from any dependency.  I'm not quite sure where it comes from, because 'pkglint -F' says it is unknown to pkgsrc.
> 
> 
> # pkg_info -Fe /usr/pkg/bin/xsubpp
> pkg_info: No matching pkg for /usr/pkg/bin/xsubpp.
> # ll /usr/pkg/bin/xsubpp
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  23 Sep  4 11:16 /usr/pkg/bin/xsubpp -> ../lib/perl5/bin/xsubpp
> # ll /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/bin/xsubpp
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  5185 Aug 27 13:57 /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/bin/xsubpp
> # pkg_info -Fe /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/bin/xsubpp
> perl-5.30.0

Thanks.  I didn't notice the symbolic link and just expected pkg_info -F to do the right thing.

It still seems that defining XSUBPP in the configure environment may be necessary, at least in some cases.  Could that cause any problems?

Cheers,
Brook