Re: Trying to build exiv2-0.82.0nb3 on aarch64

[Matthew Widup <widupmm%proton.me@localhost>]

I originally did install 9.3 just for testing.  But since then I have installed it permanently.  I did try to compile exiv2 using every version of GCC in pkgsrc, just for the sake of trying.  Then, I switched to pkgsrc 2023Q2.  I can compile exiv2-0.27.6 from there without a hitch.  So now I can run everything I need to run.  Since this computer use almost never online, I will keep it the way it is until the day I'm ready to switch to NetBSD 10 on all the computers I have running NetBSD.  In the meantime, everything I need works in 9.2 and 9.3.

The only reason I was running -current was for the Pinebook Pro inbuilt wifi, which doesn't really work anyway, so I never use it.

On Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 at 11:46 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:


> "David H. Gutteridge" david%gutteridge.ca@localhost writes:
> 
> > I think probably anyone who wants better aarch64 support should stick
> > with NetBSD 10 at this point. (Though I realize the downgrade to 9.3
> > was for testing purposes.) So the simple answer would be: go back to
> > 10 (or 10.99.2 to test), don't use the GCC from pkgsrc for anything,
> > and it should "just work".
> 
> 
> Agreed, and I was trying to say that. The standard approach is starting
> to be "run NetBSD 10" even though it isn't actually released. Running
> current is asking for a bit of trouble; if you can resolve it, that's
> totally fine of course. And 9 is suffering from having too old a base
> compiler relative to how people that release software think it's ok to
> set requirements - it was released almost 4 years ago.