Re: pkgsrc on Fedora Linux?

[Alexander Schreiber <als%thangorodrim.ch@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 10:34:56PM +0100, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 21:48:23 +0100
> Alexander Schreiber <als%thangorodrim.ch@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Long story short: Is anyone using pkgsrc on current Fedora Linux and
> > has a list of workarounds for known breakage? Otherwise the "try to make
> > glusterfs build on Fedora Linux" project will stall out early ..
> 
> I do use F39 with pkgsrc in unprivileged mode on my work laptop. I have

Building pkgsrc as root - the machine (ok, VM) is _literally_ named
labrat for reasons ;-)

> a few uncommitted fixes here and there (mostly PLIST fixes and stuff to
> make Xorg from pkgsrc work). I do have PREFER_PKGSRC=yes and both
> ncurses and db4 from pkgsrc installed with no local workarounds in
> those packages.

Interesting.

> One addition I have in mk.conf that could be relevant is:
> 
> TOOLS_PLATFORM.gmake=/tnn/pkg/bin/gmake
> TOOLS_PLATFORM.awk=/tnn/pkg/bin/nawk

Ok, I'll build those from pkgsrc, add this to mk.conf, try again and
will report back.

Kind regards,
          Alex.
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