Re: scanner problem with packages depending on devel/gobject-introspection

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

On 08/01, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Yes.  In my view we need to eiher
> 
> 1) decide that it's a bug that packages lose when there is a symlink and
> fix them or
> 
> 2) change mk/ to fail hard with a message if there is a symlink issue

Just a reminder that symlink issues have been a recurring
problem.  For example, see this thread related to /bin/pwd and
devel/gobject-introspection:

  https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2015/05/21/msg021577.html

In it, joerg@ said:

  Don't use symlinks in PREFIX OR WRKOBJDIR.

To which chuck@ said:

  We should document that pkgsrc limitation.  I can add a note about
  PREFIX to README.MacOSX.

  It would be nice if bootstrap could check PREFIX for symlinks
  at pkgsrc init time (e.g. something along the lines of
  checkarg_sane_absolute_path).

To which dholland@ said:

  I think it is documented, although if so it's obviously not prominent
  enough.

and:

  Yes, that's a good idea.

Among other comments.  But there's no follow-up message to the thread
about anything that was done.  And I don't find any mention of "link" in
bootstrap/{README,README.MacOSX}.

Lewis