Re: pkg/40950: misc/openoffice3 failed to build on NetBSD 5.0_RC2/i386

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/40950; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/40950: misc/openoffice3 failed to build on NetBSD 5.0_RC2/i386
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:18:52 -0500

 Hi,
 
 This can be closed; I figured out the problem, and it's user error.
 I was trying to use one i386 machine to compile packages for another,
 slower i386 machine.  I'd set some compiler flags to produce code
 that's optimized for the target machine; some of those flags produced
 code that wouldn't run on the build machine.  It didn't occur to me
 originally that beyond the explicit build dependencies in the pkgsrc
 make file, there are also build dependencies pre-packaged into the
 Open Office source (epm), which would have incorrect code generated
 for the build machine.  (Why would a slower machine support
 instructions that a faster machine didn't?  Well, we're talking
 about an Intel Atom processor...)
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave