Re: wip/subread no longer installs on NetBSD/amd64

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

John Klos <john%klos.com@localhost> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I can't seem to update wip/subread:
>
> RR> Replacing subread-2.0.2
> ===> su-do-clean [subread-2.1.0] ===> Cleaning for subread-2.1.0
> => Bootstrap dependency digest>=20211023: found digest-20220214
> ERROR: This package is not available for these platforms: NetBSD-*-*.
> ERROR: This package has set PKG_SKIP_REASON:
> ERROR: subread-2.1.0 is not available for NetBSD-10.1_STABLE-x86_64
> *** Error code 1
>
>
> "NOT_FOR_PLATFORM+=NetBSD-*-*" is in the Makefile right below comments
> talking about running this on NetBSD. The commit for that is from
> January, but there aren't any notes about why this was added.
>
> Is this not runnable on NetBSD any longer?

It's incorrect to use NOT_FOR, because there is no good reason this
program should not be available.

What happened when you commented that out?  I think it's better for it
to just run without checking, vs. never running.  I'd expect it's easy
to patch around a build failure.