Re: Circular dependency in libtool-base

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 02:11:12PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> I've just bootstrapped PKGSRC on an AIX 6.1 machine, which went just
> fine. However, next thing I wanted to do was to install gcc47, which
> failed because of a circular dependency in libtool-base:
> 
> libtool-base -> gzip -> xz -> libtool-base
> 
> Any ideas how to overcome this issue? FWIW, gzip 1.2.4 is already
> installed outside of PKGSRC, and can be found via $PATH.

Workaround: in pkgsrc/mk/tools/tools.AIX.mk, add a line
"TOOLS_PLATFPRM.gzip?=/path/to/gzip", that should get you further.

The circular dependency is not nice :(
 Thomas