CVS commit: pkgsrc/bootstrap

["David H. Gutteridge" <gutteridge%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   gutteridge
Date:           Mon Mar 27 17:04:42 UTC 2023

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/bootstrap: README.NetBSD

Log Message:
README.NetBSD: also note PKGSRC_USE_SSP example


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.3 -r1.4 pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.NetBSD

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.NetBSD
diff -u pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.NetBSD:1.3 pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.NetBSD:1.4
--- pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.NetBSD:1.3  Mon Mar 27 16:16:55 2023
+++ pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.NetBSD      Mon Mar 27 17:04:42 2023
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: README.NetBSD,v 1.3 2023/03/27 16:16:55 gutteridge Exp $
+$NetBSD: README.NetBSD,v 1.4 2023/03/27 17:04:42 gutteridge Exp $
 
 Generally, pkgsrc considers the current and previous major releases of
 NetBSD to be supported, and older ones not to be supported, following
@@ -22,3 +22,8 @@ workaround.)
 As of 2023, it is believed that NetBSD 7 and newer have an adequate
 /usr/bin/make; NetBSD 6 and older require a bootstrap or replacement.
 
+Other pkgsrc infrastructure changes may also cause trouble on older
+releases.  For instance, by default PKGSRC_USE_SSP is now set to
+"strong", which would cause builds on NetBSD 7 and older to fail, as
+it passes "-fstack-protector-strong", which isn't recognized by GCC 4.8
+or older.