Re: Perpetual loop

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:14:24PM -0400, Al wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed the latest pkgsrc on FreeBSD 13. I was not able to install any
> packages. It keeps giving the the error perpetual loop. It wants to install
> libtools, but needs gcc3, but needs libtools to install gcc3. Is there a
> work around for this?
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Al
> 

If pkgsrc is trying to build gcc3 something is very wrong, this basically
means it couldn't find a toolchain.

I think - not entirely sure - you need to set CLANGBASE in .mk.conf
to (/usr) and set PKGSRC_COMPILER=	clang.