Re: long term broken packages

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 11:28:00PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  > - misc/hanzim
>  > has never worked in bulk builds, ever ever,
>  > but still clutters up the log.
>  > Requires an X server to be running (!?)
> 
> This has come up before and as best I can recall the eventual
> conclusion was to ignore it. My recollection is that it has to start
> up a tcl/tk event loop in order to initialize some of its files or
> something, such that patching around it would be complicated, and
> providing it with a fake X server to connect to during the build is
> not worth the trouble.
> 
> (We were at one point close enough to zero broken packages to actually
> consider doing something about it...)

I decided masking it is better than failing at install time.

>  > - x11/labltk
>  > failing on every platform for over a year
>  > "gmake[1]: liblabltk.a: No such file or directory"
>  > race condition?
> 
> gdt fixed this, problem was RANLIB not being set.
> 
> Did we stop passing RANLIB by default at some point? There's no way
> things could have ever worked otherwise.

I recall recently some old make environment variables became missing
due to a change by riastradh related to cross-compilation. The ones
I noticed were fixed.

We probably should define RANLIB by default...