Re: pkg/48487: devel/boost-libs build fails on netbsd-5/i386

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/48487; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/48487: devel/boost-libs build fails on netbsd-5/i386
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 06:51:47 +0000

 On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 07:25:00PM +0000, John D. Baker wrote:
  >  One interesting thing--perhaps I'm not as 'make'-savvy as I once was,
  >  I tried to use the following to simplify the list of packages for which
  >  I need to override "GCC_REQD" to avoid needless duplication:
  >  
  >    .if "${PKGPATH}" == "multimedia/libvpx" || \
  >        !empty(PKGPATH:Mdevel/boost-*) || \
  >        "${PKGPATH}" == "meta-pkgs/boost"
  >      GCC_REQD+=4.6
  >    .endif
  >  
  >  This sort-of works--there are no complaints about malformed conditionals.
  >  "lang/gcc45" doesn't show up in the nested list of dependencies for the
  >  target package, yet somehow the installed "lang/gcc46" isn't detected and
  >  the system proceeds to start building "lang/gcc45" anyway.
  >  
  >  If I change it back to check explicit equality of ${PKGPATH} with each
  >  of the "devel/boost-{jam,headers,libs}" packages, it works properly.
  >  Not sure what I'm missing.
 
 That looks to me like a make bug; or possibly, if you put the new
 conditional in a different place, maybe PKGPATH isn't set yet there.
 If you take the quotes off ${PKGPATH}, does it complain about a
 malformed conditional?
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost