On Fri, 14 Aug 2026, Thomas Klausner wrote:
On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 07:26:26AM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote:Should we make the textproc/expat builtin check also verify that expat_config.h is present? That would solve the problem once and for all.The advantage is that it would fix Python because that unconditionally looks for expat_config.h. The disadvantage is that it's not required for most other software, and we would stop allowing built-in expat on NetBSD < 11.99.5 (before expat_config.h was installed).
Ah right, I remember NetBSD having the same issue. But does that also mean that Python, as it is, does not build on NetBSD < 11.99.5? That's also not great.
What do you propose? I can just disable builtin expat on Darwin, but that feels like a hack.
-- Benny