Subject: Re: pkgsrc Interix 3.5/i386 bulk build results 20061219.1220
To: None <pkgsrc-bulk@netbsd.org>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: pkgsrc-bulk
Date: 01/03/2007 10:58:44
On 1/2/07, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> > Interix isn't the only OS lacking these; NetBSD didn't always have
> > them either, IIRC.  Sounds like a job for a real build-time dependency
> > package with appropriate builtin.mk.
>
> If anything, I would make it part of the bootstrap.

Extra platform support besides the bare minimum (bmake, ftp, pkg_*)
should be contained within packages with appropriate builtin.mk, and
that would include such things as C99 support headers.  See also
devel/patch, devel/libgetopt, devel/sysexits....

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>