Re: pkg/50988: mplayer, gmplayer, mencoder build fails with "unrecognized relocation (0x2a) in section `.text'"

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50988; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/50988: mplayer, gmplayer, mencoder build fails with
 "unrecognized relocation (0x2a) in section `.text'"
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 06:06:11 -0500 (CDT)

 On Mon, 21 Mar 2016, John D. Baker wrote:
 
 > > $ grep binutil  /var/db/pkg/mplayer-1.2/+*  
 > > /var/db/pkg/mplayer-1.2/+CONTENTS:@blddep binutils-2.25.1
 > > 
 > > and netbsd-7 in-tree binutils is 2.23.2.  So it's always required
 > > devel/binutils, it's just that the binutils-2.26 is being a pain?
 >
 > It's too early here (among other things).  Accoring to the build
 > dependency, the in-tree binutils SHOULD be sufficient, but for some
 > reason that's being ignored and devel/binutils is being built/used
 > anyway.
 
 A comprehensive search reveals that "mplayer" is the only package to
 register a build dependency on binutils-2.25.1 (binutils-2.26nb1) even
 though the messages at build time claim that any binutils >= 2.22 should
 be sufficient.
 
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