Re: pkg/39879: libX11 canoot build on systems with non-GNU 'cpp' (in this case, IRIX)

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39879; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
To: Stuart Shelton <srcshelton%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/39879: libX11 canoot build on systems with non-GNU 'cpp'
 (in this case, IRIX)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 20:26:02 -0600 (CST)

 On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Stuart Shelton wrote:
 
 > I don't know whether -traditional and -undef are GNU parameters, but they
 > smell that way to me.  With the two problematic tests removed, libX11 builds
 > and tests just fine - so I'd have thought that the best approach would be an
 > IRIX-specific patch which simply removes the tests (or even just the two
 > resulting 'exit 1's) from the configure script.
 
 Strange. So your config.log says your cpp requires -traditional or -undef.
 
 What happens when you run ./configure without pkgsrc? (You may need to set 
 enviornment varianles for pkg-config.)