Re: pkg/53673: Building Python 3.7 on Linux fails with error "pkg_create: can't stat" at stage "Generating post-install file lists"

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Subject: Re: pkg/53673: Building Python 3.7 on Linux fails with error
 "pkg_create: can't stat" at stage "Generating post-install file lists"
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:14:10 +0000

 I'm hinted at this being a bigger problem we should probably resolve
 cleanly. glibc has apparently deprecated nis as well, so newer builds
 might not have it too (this is the default).
 
 This is a skeleton idea of what we could do, I don't know where to put
 HAVE_NIS in pkgsrc/mk (completely untested, just writing down my
 thoughts as code)
 I can make everyone do the nis test and it would probably be cleaner,
 but that is a small risk of breaking platforms.
 
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