Re: pkg/46383: Enabling large-file support breaks archivers/unzip under solaris sparc

[Uwe Klaus <uklaus%hgb-leipzig.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46383; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Uwe Klaus <uklaus%hgb-leipzig.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/46383: Enabling large-file support breaks archivers/unzip
 under solaris sparc
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:37:38 +0200 (CEST)

 On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 
 > I'd really like to do that (and have prepared the update based on your
 > patch) but the upstream distfile is only available as zip file. I'm
 > not sure what they thought when they did that. How are you supposed to
 > bootstrap when you're on a Unix without an unzip?
 yes, this is a chicken or egg dilemma.
 
 Regards,
 Uwe