Re: Build failure tooling improvements

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 05:22:54PM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> Yeh, a full implementation of this would be a reasonable amount of work and
> some discussion about the design, but I think a good start that would be
> easy to implement while still covering a lot of cases would be two
> additional build configurations: one that has PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS of "foo",
> and one that has "-foo", for every option listed in
> mk/defaults/options.description.
> 
> That way it shouldn't fall foul of any package-specific requirements, but
> still test the usual suspects that cause the most fallout, e.g. doc, nls,
> etc.

I think we might have a problem there in the -foo case with
PKG_OPTIONS_REQUIRED_GROUPS i.e. the packages that you require you to
choose one of mysql-or-postgres or gtk2-or-gtk3.

But probably the ones that work will be already a good start.
 Thomas