Re: pkg/40544 (pkgtools/pkg_install fails to build on Solaris)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/40544; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/40544 (pkgtools/pkg_install fails to build on Solaris)
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:40:19 +0100

 On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:00:06AM +0000, J?rn Clausen wrote:
 >  Sorry, seems we are not done yet. When testing my own suggestion in
 
 This is *not* part of the problem.
 
 >  PREFER_PKGSRC=yes
 >  
 >  and then installing graphics/freetype2 (to check the use of zlib), build 
 >  enters an infinite loop, oscillating between net/tnftp and 
 >  devel/ncurses. Setting
 >  
 >  PREFER_NATIVE=ncurses
 >  
 >  (which I don't actually want to use, anyway) does not solve this behavior.
 
 See the discussion about FETCH_USING on tech-pkg. You are explicitly
 telling pkgsrc that you don't want to build tnftp against the system
 curses. So tnftp has to depend on curses. Now this needs a tool to
 fetch, so go back to tnftp and bail out as it detects a cyclic
 dependency.
 
 You only didn't see that before as tnftp was implicitly built with the
 default settings (to use the system curses/termcap). Note that the
 problem *did* exist before if the platform had neither termcap nor tinfo
 nor curses.
 
 Joerg