Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/mldonkey-gui

[John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>]

On 7/21/2012 11:03, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:13:53PM +0000, John Marino wrote:
> > Module Name:    pkgsrc
> > Committed By:   marino
> > Date:           Fri Jul 20 14:13:53 UTC 2012
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >         pkgsrc/net/mldonkey-gui: Makefile
> >
> > Log Message:
> > net/mldonkey-gui: CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-option-checking
> >
> > On DragonFly, this package always halted on the configure stage with the
> > message, "configure: error: unrecognized options: --with-libintl-prefix"
> >
> > We couldn't find the source of this obsolete configure option, it didn't
> > come from mldonkey and devel/gettext-lib isn't a dependency.  Adding
> > --disable-option-checking changed allowed this to be a warning rather than
> > a fatal error and also allows a successful build.
> >
> > Background: DragonFly doesn't have libintl in base.
>
> It sounds like devel/gettext-lib needs to be added and not working around
> that by introducing another option.
>
> Bernd

Many, many packages emit "--with-libintl-prefix" unrecognized errors on 
DragonFly, this is the only one set to fail fatally because of it.  The 
Reason NetBSD users aren't seeing it is that libintl is part of the base 
system so I think this configuration option is suppressed on that system.

What probably needs to happen is that all the --with/out-libintl-prefix 
options need to be removed completely as modern configure doesn't 
recognize it.  That's not my decision.  For now, putting this configure 
script to work like all the others that use libintl is good enough. 
It's a pkgsrc problem, not an individual package problem.

And the problem isn't adding devel/gettext-lib is a dependency.  Imagine 
the pile of hate I'd get adding an unneeded dependency to a package.

John