Re: "special" tools e.g. yacc/lex etc. and non-NetBSD systems

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

> Under OSes other than NetBSD lots of packages failed
> because their so called base system _drammatically_ differs
> from that of NetBSD. For example, lots of them fail because
> they cannot find yacc, lex, uuencode and other tools used
> for configuring or building.
> Some of such tools are in USE_TOOLS list and many are not - doesn't
> matter.
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> It whould be nice to see all these packages fail under NetBSD too in
> order to be visible by packagers. In this case support for operating
> systems other than NetBSD (all of them!) can be drammatically improved
> even if software is packaged and tested under NetBSD only.
The same question. Can I send-pr a change-request for this?

> Examples of such tools: yacc [1], lex, mkdep[2], csh [3],
> compress [4], m4 [5], pkg-config [6], msgfmt [7]
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> [1]
> http://www.mova.org/~cheusov/pub/pkgsrc-pbulk/Debian-etch/current/log/20080510.1351/graphics/magicpoint/stage_configure.html

> [3]
> http://www.mova.org/~cheusov/pub/pkgsrc-pbulk/Debian-etch/current/log/20080510.1351/graphics/radiance/stage_build.html

> [4]
> http://www.mova.org/~cheusov/pub/pkgsrc-pbulk/Debian-etch/current/log/20080510.1351/fonts/Xg/stage_install.html

> [5]
> http://www.mova.org/~cheusov/pub/pkgsrc-pbulk/Debian-etch/current/log/20080510.1351/sysutils/xapply/stage_build.html

> [6]
> http://www.mova.org/~cheusov/pub/pkgsrc-pbulk/Debian-etch/current/log/20080510.1351/editors/elvis-x11/stage_configure.html

> [7]
> http://www.mova.org/~cheusov/pub/pkgsrc-pbulk/Debian-etch/current/log/20080510.1351/mail/clawsker/stage_build.html

All these still fail.
http://www.mova.org/~cheusov/pub/pkgsrc-pbulk/Debian-etch/current/log/20080519.1218/META/report.html

Though fixes are trivial.

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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.