Re: xentools413 not building (NetBSD-current, pkgsrc-current)

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 03:14:23PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 09:59:53AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > 
> > Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> writes:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:24:58AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> I know of no scheme that you should have to set variables to succeed.
> > >> AIUI, xentools413 has ocmal code which was not updated upstream to avoid
> > >> using deprecated ocaml features, and pkgsrc-current has ocaml 4.11 which
> > >> removes that feature (unsafe strings).  But, I think xentools413 has
> > >> been fixed in pkgsrc-current.
> > >
> > > FWIW I still reproduce gnats.netbsd.org/55888 in every pbulk run on
> > > -current/amd64.
> > 
> > I was thinking about ocaml and didn't know about this PR.
> > 
> > Have you tried to build not under pbulk?   My only thought is that there
> > could be some non-expressed dependency that's (properly) not provided in
> > pbulk, but exists on almost all systems where somebody would try to
> > build not in pbulk.
> > 
> > 
> > I can build xentools413 under netbsd-9, pkgsrc-2020Q4, amd64 (not
> > pbulk).  It doesn't seem to be in the pkgbuild binary set, though.
> 
> 
> Just had a pkg_rolling-replace fail again because I forgot -X xentools413.
> 
> Chadvar's fix (which I haven't tried, but looks plausible) doesn't
> involve dependencies, and also shows that the build failure is seen
> on several systems.

I'm not sure it's right, and at last it needs to be checked that it
doesn't break the build on netbsd-9

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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