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

[Jason Bacon <jtocino%gmx.com@localhost>]

On 6/14/25 09:38, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 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.

It doesn't build without libsysinfo, except using Darwin-specific code. 
Hence the lengthy comment explaining the NetBSD situation.

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