Re: pkg/52891: can't install lang/perl5 on Solaris 11/sparc from NFS-mounted source tree

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/52891; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>
To: Joern Clausen <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, pkg-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost,
	pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/52891: can't install lang/perl5 on Solaris 11/sparc from
 NFS-mounted source tree
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:03:49 +0000

 * On 2018-01-16 at 10:32 GMT, Joern Clausen wrote:
 
 > - The .nfs files are only created on the NFS share located on my other
 > pkgsrc machine (exported ZFS). When I use an NFS export from our filer, no
 > dot files are left over. I got around this problem by compiling the Perl
 > package with destdir temporarily set to /var/tmp. Luckily, the CPAN packages
 > are were not affected. So this is clearly a Solaris issue.
 
 Setting WRKOBJDIR to a local directory will not only resolve the
 problem, you will also likely see a large speed increase in build
 times.
 
 > - Was the change to PLIST checking communicated somewhere? I noticed that I
 > can't install graphics/gimp any longer on Solaris, because there is one
 > plugin compiled, that is not in PLIST. For some reason this does not happen
 > on my NetBSD machine. I assume that happened before (I was able to install
 > the same Gimp version before), but was not a fatal error.
 >
 > Can I revert this PLIST checking in mk.conf?
 
 You can by setting CHECK_FILES=no, but understand that this is
 basically saying "I am ok with broken packages and don't want to know
 about them".  We believe it's better to fix the actual problems than
 ignore them.
 
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 Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com