Re: toolchain/50022 (NetBSD 4.x can't build NetBSD 7.x)

[lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost]

Synopsis: NetBSD 4.x can't build NetBSD 7.x

State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost
State-Changed-When: Thu, 18 May 2023 15:22:53 +0000
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This is going to be an issue for any of the external tools that use automake
and have been generated with automake 1.13b or newer (released 2013-05-31).
See upstream commit:
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/m4/init.m4?id=f78b0f0b2741fcdd4e21151758a8a75ddaa8aa17

The automake upstream head has unreleased reversion:
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/m4/init.m4?id=3099097d74c96bbb30aa38233091f96634eda27a

Given it's not practical to locally fix and regenerate all the upstream
external/**/dist/configure for this issue, NetBSD 4.0 is waaay EOL
(as is NetBSD 7), thoreau is now running 9.99 (thanks for providing access),
do we need to keep this ticket open?

Ps: the upstream commit/thread does point to this posix bug
  https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=542
which has a comment that NetBSD 4.0 doesn't work with rm -f without an argument:
Look for "0002407" on that page.