Re: pkg/29700 (lang/sun-jre15 won't install using pkg_comp & libkver)

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

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 07:50:04PM +0000, Robert Elz wrote:
 >  That's true, but this problem actually related to any application
 >  using linux emulation - libkver assumes a NetBSD libc (it sed
 >  <ctype.h>) - glibc has a totally different idea of how isdigit()
 >  ought to be implemented, and the symbols that libkver expects
 >  libc to provide just aren't there.

Is it doing LD_PRELOAD=... with a NetBSD library on a Linux bin? That
would certainly explain why it would be failing.

Since the Linux emulation already has the ability to lie about the
kernel version (since it has to pretend to be Linux) it should just
not do this for Linux bins, I think... but figuring out where this
happens and how to tell when it's happening probably isn't trivial.

Anyway, do you know of another package (preferably, a simpler one)
that exhibits the same behavior? Having no test case will just
guarantee that it sits around for another five years without anyone
doing anything. :-/

(but I agree, it should be reopened, or maybe we should file a new
PR.)

-- 
David A. Holland
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