Re: Combining NOT_FOR_* and BROKEN_ON_*

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 06:48:43PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
 > > There are a few things that it has been successfully used for in the
 > > past (and in the present):
 > > 
 > > - packages that build but do not run (e.g. xview on 64-bit platforms)
 > > - packages where the build goes into an infinite loop
 > > - packages where the build takes an unreasonably long time or an
 > >  unreasonable I/O volume before failing
 > 
 > At least for the latter two NOT_FOR_BULK_PLATFORM is more appropriate.

Possibly so, yes. Possibly not, too.

If I went to build one of those by hand, the small nuisance of
commenting out the annotation in the Makefile is probably worth the
advance warning, which one's otherwise unlikely to notice.

And if I was running pkg_rr or similar I'd certainly rather get the
immediate failure.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost