Subject: Re: Toolchain Update (27-Nov-2001)
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 11/28/2001 17:36:51
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:22:50AM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> 
> : > Probably the better check is just to not set it if BSD_PKG_MK is set. The
> : > presumption is that things within /usr/src are using the /usr/src build
> : > structure.
> :
> : Except that that seems to be broken in pgksrc presently. To whit...
> 
> I'm not exactly sure why you're getting this behavior, but as a sanity
> check: do you happen to have "pkgsrc" [improperly] located under "src"?
> 
> -- 
> -- Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>  *  Wasabi & NetBSD:  Run with it.
> -- CDs, Integration, Embedding, Support -- http://www.wasabisystems.com/

pkgsrc can go anywhere in your source directory structure, and you
can have multiple instances of it anywhere you like. Please don't
impose extra restrictions (which have never been in place before).
If the new toolchain can't handle this, the new toolchain needs to
be fixed.

Regards,
Alistair