Re: pkgsrc on Fedora Linux?

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 22:34:56 +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
> 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.
>
> 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

Same for me (mostly); with an unprivileged F39 setup, ncurses and db4
both build fine for me. (I don't have those overrides applied, nor do
I have PREFER_PKGSRC set, casually on purpose.)

I'd closed PR 56843 as I didn't get any useful feedback about it. I'll
reopen it.

Regards,

Dave