Re: bin/57820: devel/rcs fails on 10.0_RC2 works on 9.3

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

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From: RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>
To: George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>,
        Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>, tech-pkg%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/57820: devel/rcs fails on 10.0_RC2 works on 9.3
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 07:36:45 +0000 (UTC)

 On Tue, 16 Jan 2024, George Georgalis wrote:
 
 > If my goal is minimal OS, how might I determine the sets required
 > for a given task? Do the sets have definitions for what they contain
 > or should not contain? It is natural that pkgsrc is just checking if
 > the OS is NetBSD if there is no definition of what sets provide.
 >
 I think going with the "Installation without X11" choice should work out
 better than going with the "Minimal installation" selection.
 
 > Not sure about the nb10rc2 base make on nfs observation,
 > but I'll start a new thread if that returns as I resume using
 > nfs.
 >
 
 Yeah, that NFS issue puzzles me too (server not supporting nanosec
 mod times? uid/gid mixup? perm. issues?...) but, for shared NFS
 pkgsrc build, make sure you do:
 
 a) sync the time on all your machines (as Martin said)
 b) set `WRKOBJDIR=' and `PACKAGES=' to some local dir.
 c) one NetBSD, either use make(1) with the std. paths, or bmake(1) with
     if you want a different prefix. Don't mix these (the gurus have
     spoken!).
 
 > I suspected it was a date GNUism and had no clue why it would come up.
 > Obviously, there was an unchecked error in the rcs build, no rcsfreeze.1
 > man page...
 >
 
 Due to a lack of time, I didn't go find out _why_ that rule is
 being run when the pkgsrc Makefile has `post-configure' step to
 stop just that:
 
 ```
 # configure will be modified by pkgsrc framework with timestamp update.
 # sync timestamp with man/REL to avoid regeneration of man.
 post-configure:
  	${TOUCH} -r ${WRKSRC}/man/REL ${WRKSRC}/configure
 ```
 
 So, the whole man-page generation dance shouldn't happen at all
 _even if_ soelim wasn't there and pkgsrc had to build it--and
 whatever a groff build depends on--on a minimal-package system (which
 seems to include: Perl, Python, Rust...I stopped this recursive
 dep. build on Ubuntu right there :)).
 
 -RVP