Re: is/should send-pr in pkgsrc?

[Carl Brewer <carl%bl.echidna.id.au@localhost>]

David Holland wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:56:37AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > > As such, is it worth putting send-pr (or a suitable mutant of it) in the  
>  > > bootstrap setup for non NetBSD systems?
>  > 
>  > send-pr itself is part of GNATS. I don't think it provides a much nicer
>  > interface than the web frontend (well, both suck), so not sure if
>  > splitting it off would really give much.
>
> However, our send-pr is configured (or patched?) for NetBSD, and I
> would think a vanilla one built from gnats wouldn't be.

And it doesn't compile on OS 200811/SunOS 5.11 anyway :) :

"/usr/include/unistd.h", line 359: identifier redeclared: getopt
        current : function(int, pointer to const pointer to char, 
pointer to const char) returning int
        previous: function(int, pointer to pointer to char, pointer to 
char) returning int : "/usr/include/stdio.h", line 323
"/usr/include/unistd.h", line 467: identifier redeclared: rename
        current : function(pointer to const char, pointer to const 
char) returning int
        previous: function(pointer to char, pointer to char) returning 
int : "/usr/include/iso/stdio_iso.h", line 207
"/usr/include/stdlib.h", line 188: identifier redeclared: getsubopt
        current : function(pointer to pointer to char, pointer to const 
pointer to char, pointer to pointer to char) returning int
        previous: function(pointer to pointer to char, pointer to 
pointer to char, pointer to pointer to char) returning int : 
"/usr/include/stdio.h", line 317
cc: acomp failed for edit.c
gmake[1]: *** [edit.o] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/pkgsrc/databases/gnats/work/gnats-4.1.0/gnats'
gmake[1]: Entering directory 
`/usr/pkgsrc/databases/gnats/work/gnats-4.1.0/send-pr'
sed -e 's,xVERSIONx,4.1.0,g' \
        -e 's,xSYSCONFDIRx,/usr/pkg/etc/gnats,g' ./send-pr.man > 
send-pr.1-t
mv send-pr.1-t send-pr.1
sed -e 's,xVERSIONx,4.1.0,g' \
        -e 's,xSYSCONFDIRx,/usr/pkg/etc/gnats,g' ./install-sid.man > 
install-sid.8-t
mv install-sid.8-t install-sid.8
echo "@set VERSION 4.1.0" > version.texi-t
mv version.texi-t version.texi
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/pkgsrc/databases/gnats/work/gnats-4.1.0/send-pr'
gmake[1]: Entering directory 
`/usr/pkgsrc/databases/gnats/work/gnats-4.1.0/doc'
echo "@set VERSION 4.1.0" > version.texi-t
mv version.texi-t version.texi
/usr/pkgsrc/databases/gnats/work/.tools/bin/makeinfo -I . -o gnats.info 
gnats.texi
gmake[1]: /usr/pkgsrc/databases/gnats/work/.tools/bin/makeinfo: Command 
not found
gmake[1]: *** [gnats.info] Error 127
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/pkgsrc/databases/gnats/work/gnats-4.1.0/doc'
gmake: *** [all-gnats] Error 2
*** Error code 2

Stop.
bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/databases/gnats
*** Error code 1

Stop.
bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/databases/gnats



In light of that, is the web submission form the right/best way to 
submit bugs & patches if send-pr doesn't want to play nicely yet?