Re: long term broken packages

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

>>  > - 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...

Sure, but it's a clear bug for an upstream Makefile to expect RANLIB to
be defined in the environment, without this being documented in INSTALL,
and to fail to try 'ranlib'.