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

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

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

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/43067 (devel/p5-Date-Manip causes make core dump on NetBSD 4.0 
(+FIX))
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:03:43 +0700

     Date:        Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:15:04 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        "OBATA Akio" <obache%NetBSD.org@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20110914061504.D1FFE63BBA9%www.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   | they need to know builtin make version is sufficient, but cannot.
 
 It should always be safe to use the pkgsrc version, just doing so is usually
 unnecessary, and hence wasteful.
 
 But we can, as is proposed in this PR, discover that (for example) the
 NetBSD 4 version of make is defective, and when that is true, require
 the newer version for that release.  That is, the proposal here is in
 two parts (hence the two PRs) - one is to add the ability to use bmake
 to replace make when a package determines (however that is done) that
 is necessary, and the second is the fix to this package, to use that
 mechanism when building on NetBSD 4 (any version, we'll just wear the
 cost if the particular NetBSD 4 happens to be built from cvs after the
 fix was pulled up, that's harmless, building make isn't all that hard
 or slow, not even on the slower architectures).
 
 Really, this works, it is simple, and effective - the change is non-intrusive.
 
 The alternative (Joerg's suggestion of doing a bootstrap mechanism for
 NetBSD 4) is a lot of work, useful for (we hope) only a short time until
 NetBSD 4 support is removed, and thereafter lost.   On the other hand,
 supporting bmake as a build tool replacement for make (note this is for
 package makefiles, not for pkgsrc itself) will continue to be useful when
 some new package uses some feature that's available in make on NetBSD 6,
 or current of the time, but which doesn't work on NetBSD 5, the package
 just selects use of bmake (which should continue to be close enough to the
 most up to date version) and all is OK.
 
 kre