Subject: Re: Solaris MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/14/2003 12:26:50
* On 2003-03-12 at 20:39 GMT, Jonathan Perkin wrote:

> GNU's config.sub mangles a --host=LOWER_ARCH-sun-solaris into
> LOWER_ARCH-sun-solaris2 to avoid clashes with old solaris1 stuff, yet we
> define:
> 
> LOWER_VENDOR?=          sun
> LOWER_OPSYS?=           solaris
> 
> in bsd.prefs.mk.  This breaks anything which assumes a PLIST of
> ${MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM}/* (e.g. ruby which I'm upgrading to 1.6.8).

Fixed for SunOS 5.* in pkg/20701, but I haven't yet taken care of
SunOS 4.* properly (do those machines even support pkgsrc yet?).  Will
look further if anyone cares enough (and I can find one still running
on our network :-)

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