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

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

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

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@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: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 04:47:54 +0000

 On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 02:05:03PM +0000, Robert Elz wrote:
  > 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.
 
 This is, mostly, because we get a lot of fail shipped down from
 upstream.
 
 not that this is an excuse.
 
 I would recommend just adopting 5.1 and higher as your standard,
 really; a fair amount of stuff doesn't build in 5.1's X, but 5.0's is
 even worse.
 
 As for why builtin X packages are handled so much worse than builtin
 anything else, that's basically because of historical issues affecting
 x11-links.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost