Re: port-evbarm/51399: evbarm7hf release fails to build on Linux 3.16 host.

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-evbarm/51399; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-evbarm/51399: evbarm7hf release fails to build on Linux
 3.16 host.
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 23:20:49 +0000

 On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 07:40:01PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
  >  > NetBSD normally has the correct lists of groups, at least if the host is
  >  > of comparative vintage as the sources to be build. That's extremely
  >  > unlikely for cross-building from non-NetBSD.
  >  
  >  Yes, I do understand the difference - but the question is what is the
  >  easiest fix.
  >  
  >  Should we check & enforce existance of all needed uid/gids on the host?
  >  Or tanslate all named references to target integer ones?
  >  
  >  If there is no easy fix, we might make it officially desupported and
  >  fail early.
 
 I don't think there's any reason to expect it to work.
 
 There was some talk a while back about making all builds unprivileged,
 and that seems like a good plan too...
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost