Re: pkg/44916: graphics/gnuplot build failure due to missing .include ../../lang/lua/buildlink3.mk

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 09:25:01PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >>  Should pkgsrc take additional wrapper precautions on dragonfly because
 >>  of this? Or should we ask dragonfly to change it?
 >  
 >  There isn't really anything we can do.

Sure, we could have the wrappers add the link equivalent of -I-,
assuming there is one, then -L/usr/lib. Or teach DF's linker to
understand -L-/usr/pkg/lib or something

 >  Give someone enough rope...
 >  IIRC someone (TM) decided to be smart and make it easier to build stuff
 >  by hand without having to properly use RPATH. Misguided, but resulting
 >  in the obvious fallout.

It's far from clear that it's misguided or that rpaths are anything
but a design bug in ELF; however, because pkgsrc is organized to do
things a certain way, we don't want /usr/pkg/lib on the default link
path when building from inside pkgsrc, so that question is entirely
moot.

The issue at hand is really whether pkgsrc should/can be adapted to
the platform or not.

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David A. Holland
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