Has anyone, anywhere, at any time ever gotten gphoto to build or install on
NetBSD of any version?

First try:

NetBSD roothog.rmkhome.com 1.6ZC NetBSD 1.6ZC (ROOTHOG) #1: Sat Oct  4 04:17:14 MDT 2003  rmk@roothog.rmkhome.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ROOTHOG i386

Tried to used binary package from ftp.netbsd.org to install gphoto compiled
for 1.6.1. Complained about popt not being the right rev.

Attempted to install popt from pkgsrc. Seems that everything in pkgsrc uses
popt, so it delete hundreds of packages, and fails to rebuild most of them.
System is now trashed - GUI, kde and gnome all gone.

Second try:

NetBSD wolf 1.6ZC NetBSD 1.6ZC (GENERIC.MP) #1: Fri Oct  3 01:02:16 MDT 2003  rmk@wolf:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP i386

Tried to build gphoto from pkgsrc. Pkgsrc thinks compiler is broken.

Third Try:

NetBSD toad 1.6.1 NetBSD 1.6.1 (TOAD) #2: Fri Oct  3 02:24:38 UTC 2003     rmk@yeti:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/TOAD i386

Latest pkgsrc from ftp.netbsd.org

Doesn't like the version of popt.

Try to directly download and build from http://www.gphoto.org. Configure
script can't get the version of libgphoto (built and installed correct
version). 

It looks to me like you can download pkgsrc once, build from the version
once, and never, ever "make update". 

I hope this isn't going to be used for packaging NetBSD, as it is a disaster
waiting to happen.

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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com