Re: pkg/32991

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/32991; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/32991
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:04:14 +0000

 On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 02:30:10PM +0000, Robert Elz wrote:
  > My guess in this is that the problem is in one of the (not Xorg)
  > libraries that get used, and I've been kind of hoping that one day
  > the relevant one would just start working properly again (after
  > all, it seems to on NetBSD 5).
 
 This sort of problem can also be caused by updating a lower-layer
 library and recompiling the game, but *not* recompiling some
 intermediate library package it depends on that's also linked to the
 same lower-layer library. This is caused by transitive dependencies in
 library ABIs interacting with backwards-compat entry points and there
 isn't yet any particularly good way of dealing with it.
 
 Generally we don't make changes on stable branches that add new compat
 layers, because of the potential for such problems, but that isn't
 always true, especially in X; also, since the package uses gtk2 there
 are plenty of layers of pkgsrc packages that could have caused it.
 
 I'm going to mark this PR netbsd-4 only, so if you don't get around to
 it before -6 comes out we can just let it die quietly.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost