Re: x11/worker build failure on NetBSD 9

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

On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 06:39:02PM +0000, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I recently updated x11/worker to the last official release.
> Apparently, the package is now broken on NetBSD 9 [0], failing 
> with `non-trivial designated initializers not supported'. As far as I
> can see, this requires GCC8 [1]. Should I set GCC_REQD to GCC8 in the
> package Makefile? 
> 
> [0] http://www.ki.nu/pkgsrc/reports/current/NetBSD-9.0/20250529.1343/worker-5.2.1/build.log
> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55606


It probably defeats the purpose of such a lightweight file manager
to require building a compiler, so I'd be in favour of reimporting
the old one under a new path.

But yeah, it's a leaf package, so doing so at least won't break other
packages.