On Monday, 30 September 2024 16.30.19 CEST tlaronde%kergis.com@localhost wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 04:20:56PM +0200, Mads Rasmussen wrote: > > On Monday, 30 September 2024 15.24.48 CEST Greg Troxel wrote: > > > NetBSD8 is sufficiently old that essentially nobody is paying attention > > > if pkgsrc works or not. I have stopped using 8 entirely. I would > > > suggest updating your system to NetBSD 10. > > > > I am going to hammer on this, until its resolved. I think the issues with > > the order of -L parameters and the presence of /usr/local/lib should be > > resolved, its good its working on 9 and 10, but _why_ is it working? > > happy mistake? coincidence? or did something change? > > Just for the "/usr/local/" stuff. It _is_ supported by NetBSD and it > is provided for in the "<paths.h>" header. > > For me, it is so that one wanting to install optional software, not > using pkgsrc, can put it somewhere, neither in the system populated > hierarchy (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib and so on) nor in the > the pkgsrc "database" i.e. what is under /usr/pkg (or whatever > dir is dedicated to pkgsrc packages installation and administration). > > One may want to segregate what is provided by NetBSD (and may not need > to be back-up'ed); what is not provided by NetBSD but handled > specifically by you (/usr/local); and what is optional and handled > by pkgsrc. > > FWIW, Ahh, okay, great, one thing less to worry about, I will concentrate on the order of the linker parameters
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