Re: pkg/55217: devel/gobject-introspection breaks cwrappers LOCALBASE contains symlink

[Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/55217; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
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Subject: Re: pkg/55217: devel/gobject-introspection breaks cwrappers LOCALBASE
 contains symlink
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:42:33 -0400

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 I think this should be enforced though (i.e. the pkgsrc Makefiles should =
 complain).
 Otherwise some packages work, others don't which is puzzling and seems =
 like a mistake.
 
 christos
 
 > On Apr 29, 2020, at 7:30 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
 >=20
 > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 09:15:00AM +0000, triaxx%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
 >>> Fix:
 >> The patch below fix the issue. But I try to ask upstream why the =
 include directories are
 >> resolved by os.path.realpath() before committing it.
 >=20
 > We don't support LOCALBASE with symlink. Period. No patches for it
 > either, don't do it.
 >=20
 > Joerg
 
 
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