Re: Is OS-specific logic in buildlink3.mk allowed?

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

Alexander Schreiber <als%thangorodrim.ch@localhost> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 11:22:50AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>> 
>> > I am looking at devel/libtirpc, which is marked
>> > ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM=Linux-*-*. This is because BSD systems include the
>> > tirpc code as part of base.
>> 
>> So probably NOT_FOR those would be better, but that's off point.
>
> AFAIK Linux is the only OS where this is needed specifically because
> only there (and it's not entirely consistent across distributions last
> time I checked) did the SUN TI RPC get ripped out of the base operating
> environment and dumped into a separate library. 
>
> So we'd end up with a NOT_FOR list that is essentially "any OS currently
> supported by pkgsrc that is not Linux".

Thanks for explaining.  I withdraw my comment.  I was reacting to "BSD
systems have it".