Subject: Re: obsoleting libgetopt
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/11/2003 14:34:10
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > > Note that that's not available on older NetBSD systems though.
> >
> > That should not be a problem -- libnbcompat should DTRT on those, too,
> > AFAIK.  Ie, it would build a libnbcompat library with whatever is
> > needed, in this case, getopt --long.
>=20
> What is "it" in that case - the libgetopt package?

"It" being pkgsrc here.  If a package contains the buildlink for
libnbcompat, it (pkgsrc) will automatically pull in linbncompat.
libnbcompat, in turn, during configure phase, determines what is missing
on the host system and builds the library accordingly.

> Or how do you get a libnbcompat on "old" NetBSD systems (1.[345])?

pkgsrc/pkgtools/libnbcompat

-Jan

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