Re: pkg/47297: fonts/ttmkfdir2 fails to build with PKGSRC_COMPILER=clang

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/47297; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/47297: fonts/ttmkfdir2 fails to build with
 PKGSRC_COMPILER=clang
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:53:42 +0000

 On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:15:04AM +0000, Daniel Loffgren wrote:
  >  That does get them to build without needing explicit tags. However, =
  >  libtool-base is a dependency of lang/clang in pkgsrc, which creates a =
  >  sort of chicken and egg issue if you don't have clang to start with, and =
  >  do build it from source. Additionally, security/nettle already has CC =
  >  tags added to the libtool lines via pkgsrc patches, but not LD tags. I =
  >  could be overlooking something, but wouldn't it be better to just be =
  >  explicit in both cases, and not depend on a libtool that was built =
  >  with/after whatever compiler you may be using?
 
 Well, the short answer is that if you don't rebuild libtool after
 changing the compilation environment, all manner of packages will
 break this way; patching them all is not either feasible or desirable.
 
 (also, I don't see any references to clang in libtool-base... or the
 other way around, either.)
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost