Re: pkg/47504: fonts/harfbuzz does not build on (standard) NetBSD 5.0 (native X11)

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/47504; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/47504: fonts/harfbuzz does not build on (standard) NetBSD 5.0 
(native X11)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:58:36 +0700

     Date:        Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:35:03 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        "OBATA Akio" <obache%NetBSD.org@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20130131113503.42DE463C07C%www.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   |  Your strategy will not work as expected,
   |  because more than a little binary packages from 5.0.x will not work
   |  on 5.1.x and 5.2.x due to missing shared libraries, or you must install
   |  such shared libraries from 5.0.x binary sets.
 
 In that case we need a compat package so supply the missing libraries, the
 same as is done to allow binaries from older versions to keep on running.
 
 NetBSD is supposed to be (among other things) much concerned with keeping
 binary compatibility, and generally does a good job - but tends to fail when
 it comes to the X related libraries.
 
 kre