Re: pkg/36863: mk/emulator/netbsd-compat.mk syntax problem on NetBSD 3 ?

["Johnny C. Lam" <jlam%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:50:00AM +0000, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost wrote:
> >Description:
>       Recent changes to the netbsd-compat stuff (and EMUL_DIST maybe)
>       have resulted in lintpkgsrc (on a NetBSD 3.0 system)
>       generating messages like ...
> 
> /usr/pkgsrc/emulators/compat12/Makefile: Cannot locate 
> /usr/pkgsrc/emulators/${DISTNAME:C/-.*//}/emulator.mk in . 
> /usr/pkgsrc/emulators/compat12 /usr/pkgsrc/emulators/compat_netbsd
> 
>       Each of the emulators/compat* packages is doing that.
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
>       Try lintpkgsrc -p on a NetBSD 3.0 sysyem (I'm using pkg_comp
>       with libkver and the original 3.0 sets installed to simulate that)
>       and just watch.
> 
> >Fix:
>       ?
> 
>       Random guess is that perhaps something is relying upon some
>       make behaviour that didn't exist (or work) in NetBSD 3.0

No, the bug is actually in lintpkgsrc, which has its own makefile
parser.  I'm loath to change compat_netbsd/Makefile.common just to
satisfy lintpkgsrc or pkglint (actually, I'm not even sure how to
rewrite that line so that lintpkgsrc or pkglint can understand it).
I did it once for the suse32_* packages already, but I wasn't happy
about doing it then, either.

I think this PR should be assigned to the pkglint maintainers.

        Cheers,

        -- Johnny Lam <jlam%pkgsrc.org@localhost>