Re: Bulk build results and X libraries

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 08:54:39PM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote:
> Looking through recent bulk builds on NetBSD, I found something that I don't
> understand.
> 
> Looking at https://releng.netbsd.org/bulktracker/build/1960, there are a
> number of X libraries (libXfont2, libXt, libXau, libX11, etc.) which are
> always marked as prefailed , but "breaking" about 50 other packages.
> 
> I assume that's modular X11, which is skipped when using native X11? I am a
> bit surprised that these show up as "prefailed". Maybe we should add a new
> "skipped" status or something?

I think this is due to them including
.include "../../meta-pkgs/modular-xorg/avoid-duplicate.mk"
which makes them "fail" if you use native X.

This actually does set PKG_SKIP_REASON, so are you asking if
"prefailed" and "skipped" mean the same thing?
 Thomas