Re: Testing for Fossil on NetBSD, and runtime loading bug fixed

[Dan Shearer <dan%shearer.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 08:33:50PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
 
Thanks for the advice; got it, pkg-config is in fact working.

> Having said that...  It looks like the libssl.pc installed by the
> security/openssl package (in contrast to OpenSSL in NetBSD's base
> system) is missing the -Wl,-R option!  So maybe auto.def was just
> using pkg-config after all and the libssl.pc file was broken.  I've
> filed a bug report for this:
> 
> PR pkg/60643: security/openssl: missing -Wl,-R in pkg-config .pc files
> https://gnats.NetBSD.org/60643

I'll try again when that lands, hopefully being able to back out my inelegant workaround.

> > If releng CI maintainers are interested, there is a test harness for
> > Fossil you could run each build (second item on the release list at
> > https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/tip/test/release-checklist.wiki ).
> 
> Cool!  We should incorporate the automated parts of that -- and a link
> t othe wiki page -- into the do-test target in the devel/fossil
> package's Makefile, which is currently missing:
> 
> https://cvsweb.NetBSD.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/fossil/Makefile?rev=1.95;content-type=text%2Fplain

That's great, it would be really useful to increase coverage.

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