The following reply was made to PR pkg/37380; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Stuart Shelton" <srcshelton@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/37380: pkgtools/p5-pkgsrc-Dewey fails due to missing err function on IRIX
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:10:19 +0000

 Actually, it'd probably make sense to replace calls to the err with
 calls to perror() or fprintf() and exit().
 
 Having said that, even when this is done I get the following output:
 
 
 ===> test-message [p5-pkgsrc-Dewey-1.0nb1] ===> Testing for
 p5-pkgsrc-Dewey-1.0nb1
 PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bsd/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
 "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
 t/Dewey....dubious
         Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
 DIED. FAILED tests 2-5
         Failed 4/5 tests, 20.00% okay
 Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 t/Dewey.t      1   256     5    8 160.00%  2-5
 Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 4/5 subtests failed, 20.00% okay.
 *** Error code 1
 
 Stop.
 bmake: stopped in
 /usr/bsd/var/tmp/pkgtools/p5-pkgsrc-Dewey/work/p5-pkgsrc-Dewey-1.0
 *** Error code 1
 
 Stop.
 bmake: stopped in /usr/bsd/src/pkgtools/p5-pkgsrc-Dewey
 *** Error code 1
 
 Stop.
 bmake: stopped in /usr/bsd/src/pkgtools/p5-pkgsrc-Dewey
 
 
 ... so there's obviously something else not right...
 
 
 On 13/11/2007, gnats-admin@netbsd.org <gnats-admin@netbsd.org> wrote:
 > Thank you very much for your problem report.
 > It has the internal identification `pkg/37380'.
 > The individual assigned to look at your
 > report is: pkg-manager.
 >
 > >Category:       pkg
 > >Responsible:    pkg-manager
 > >Synopsis:       pkgtools/p5-pkgsrc-Dewey fails due to missing err function on IRIX
 > >Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 13 21:45:00 +0000 2007
 >
 >