Re: Initial support for OpenWRT

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 10:23 -0400, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I faced an issue: https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/issues/137
> > 
> > So I made a patch to proceed further (attached).
> 
> It should be mentioned here there are other issues filed on GitHub
> related to this. Since, yes, this change is "proceed further", not
> "complete".
> 
> https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/issues/130
> https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/issues/132
> 
> Separately, I had also suggested
> need_awk=yes
> since that works around other issues in tooling, which, yes, need
> "somebody" to look at and fix. (Wasn't clear if the BusyBox awk had
> all
> the features pkgsrc requires. Maybe somebody else knows.)
> 
> jperkin@ also suggested changing the bootstrap code here to use
> feature
> tests. Another task for "somebody". :) (My focus in responding had
> been
> to try and help get the bootstrap completed. There are many possible
> diversions. Full disclaimer: I have no free time to help with any of
> this right now.)

PS to avoid any misunderstanding, my use of "somebody" does not refer to
the submitter here. It is a joke about needing an unknown other to work
on something, when often there is nobody available, given the resource
constraints.

Dave