Re: pkg/42704: Adding support for bmake as a pkgsrc tool (ala gmake)

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42704; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/42704: Adding support for bmake as a pkgsrc tool (ala
 gmake)
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:54:56 +0100

 On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:20:00AM +0000, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost wrote:
 >      Since NetBSD 4 is still supposed to be supported by pkgsrc,
 >      and since it seems unlikely that there will ever be a new NetBSD 4
 >      release to incorporate a fixed version of make, all the packages
 >      that encounter this problem need to use a pkgsrc supplied
 >      version of make rather than the system version (when building
 >      in a NetBSD 4 environment).
 
 Frankly, I would just mark them as broken with the system make.
 If someone bothers enough, he/she can always bootstrap to get the modern
 make. I explicitly do not want to have another special case for this.
 
 Joerg