Re: pkg/43067 (devel/p5-Date-Manip causes make core dump on NetBSD 4.0 (+FIX))

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/43067; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/43067 (devel/p5-Date-Manip causes make core dump on NetBSD
 4.0 (+FIX))
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:13:09 +0900

 On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:45:02 +0900, Robert Elz <kre%munnari.oz.au@localhost> 
wrote:
 
 >    | Then why not for bmake?
 > No reason at all, that's exactly what I want to happen.  But that needs
 >  support from pkgsrc - unlike openssl, and pkg_install, devel/bmake does not
 >  install a new "make", it installs a "bmake" command, so for packages to use
 >  it, they need to know to have MAKE=bmake (the same as ones that require 
 > GNU's
 >  version of make have MAKE=gmake - accomplished by adding gmake to 
 > USE_TOOLS).
 
 But it is impossible to support it from pkgsrc - unlike openssl, and 
pkg_install,
 make (bmake) does not provide its version information, so for packages to use
 newer bmake, they need to know builtin make version is sufficient, but cannot.
 
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