On 01.07.2018 10:29, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 09:48:45PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >> It's used in the build machinery of vlc: >> >> bin/Makefile.am: ./vlc-cache-gen$(EXEEXT) `realpath ../modules` ; \ > > Unfortunately readlink(1) seems to not be in POSIX either (so no easy > upstream fix), but maybe we can patch the Makefile to check for either > and use whatever is available? > > > Martin > realpath could be turned into a bootstrap TOOL and we could ship a fallback BSD version from FreeBSD. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/bin/realpath/realpath.c There is an option to import this to NetBSD's base (perhaps /usr/bin instead of /bin like the FreeBSD's version) so NetBSD users could continue their life without the need to bootstrap pkgsrc.
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