(Moved this discussion to the new maillist)
Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> On Friday 24 February 2006 08:31, MLH wrote:
>> I'm attempting to create a pkg for gdal. It wants to pull in postgres
>> (so I added the buildlink) which I don't really want, and Python,
>> which I really need. Right now it is failing to find 'lfind' which
>> is apparently part of the libcompat library, but I'm not sure hwo
>> to handle these issues. How is lfind dealt with? I can't find a
>> reference to it anywhere in relation to pkgsrc.

> G'day,
> 
> According to the manpages, lfind is part of libc and requires <search.h>
> headerfile. Not sure why it doesn't find it on your system.
> 
> LSEARCH(3)              NetBSD Library Functions Manual            
> LSEARCH(3)
> 
> NAME
>      lsearch, lfind -- linear searching routines
> 
> LIBRARY
>      Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
> [...]

Maybe that was in NetBSD 3.0?  I'm running NetBSD 2.1_STABLE :

LSEARCH(3)              NetBSD Library Functions Manual             LSEARCH(3)

NAME
     lsearch, lfind - linear searching routines

LIBRARY
     Compatibility Library (libcompat, -lcompat)

SYNOPSIS
     char *
     lsearch(const void *key, const void *base, size_t *nelp, size_t width,
             int (*compar)(void *, void *));

     char *
     lfind(const void *key, const void *base, size_t *nelp, size_t width,
             int (*compar)(void *, void *));

DESCRIPTION
     These interfaces were obsolete before they were written.  They are avail-
     able from the compatibility library, libcompat.
...

> 
> There is a gdal package in pkgsrc-wip.sf.net which you may want to take a
> look at.

Thanks, but it doesn't build either.

configure: checking whether we should include thread/mutex support......
        thread safe support disabled.
checking for deflateInit_ in -lz... yes
using pre-installed libz
checking for PostgreSQL... ./configure.lineno: 21972: Syntax error: Bad fd
number
*** Error code 2

It tries to include postgres support even though I tried to disable
it, and I don't need or want it.