Subject: Re: pkg/29254: cyclic depandancy between devel/libtool && libtool-base and devel/pth
To: None <gnats-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 02/09/2005 18:26:52
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:08:01PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
> To: ole.hellqvist@spray.se
> Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: pkg/29254: cyclic depandancy between devel/libtool && libtool-base and  devel/pth
> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:06:48 +0100
> 
>  On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:56:00PM +0000, ole.hellqvist@spray.se wrote:
>  > Downloaded the  pkgsrc.tar.gz today at 14:00, got the error caused by recycled depandancies beetween devel/libtool-base and devel/pth.
>  
>  Why do you need pth on 2.0?
>  2.0 comes with a pthread library; pth is just a replacement library
>  needed on systems which don't have one.

I think (part of) the point is that this was not detected correctly
by pkgsrc, and it tried to pull in pth.

grant.