Re: pkg/47697: pulseaudio fails to install on NetBSD/i386 5.2

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/47697; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/47697: pulseaudio fails to install on NetBSD/i386 5.2
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:05:42 +0000

 On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:25:00PM +0000, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
  >  The reason the "x11" option won't work is because the native version
  >  of X11 on NetBSD 5.2 is "too old". (I put that in quotations because
  >  as the original submitter noted, in the source tree, there's a file
  >  that's intended to create a x11-xcb.pc file, but it's not installed
  >  by a build, for whatever reason. Perhaps the associated functionality
  >  isn't built by NetBSD in the -5 release series.) 
 
 There is no xcb in -5's native X11. Adding it is a fairly major
 undertaking.
 
 It is possible that we could persuade releng to take it for 5.3, or
 possibly even another massupdate of X like the 5.0 -> 5.1 one, but
 someone has to actually do the work. (There's no way I will ever get
 to it.)
 
 Given the stability and longevity of -5 it would be nice to do this,
 but at the moment I don't think the chances are too good. :(
 
  >  Using a newer
  >  version of libX11 from pkgsrc addresses the problem of the missing
  >  pkg-config file:
 
 ...however, IMO at least, if you're going to be building libX11 from
 pkgsrc you might as well just switch fully to pkgsrc X.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost