Re: pkg/49315: ast-ksh fails to build on NetBSD 7 beta amd64

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/49315; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/49315: ast-ksh fails to build on NetBSD 7 beta amd64
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:20:51 +0000

 On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 03:30:01PM +0000, Gerard Lally wrote:
  >>  On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 01:55:01AM +0000, gerard%netmail.ie@localhost wrote:
  >>   > => Unwrapping files-to-be-installed.
  >>   > ===> Installing for ast-ksh-20120801
  >>   > => Creating installation directories
  >>   > install: /home/gerard/pkgsrc/shells/ast-ksh/work/arch/netbsd.amd64/bin/ksh: stat: No such file or directory
  >>   > *** Error code 1
  >>  
  >>  I think this is the same problem it's had for years.
  >  
  >  Thank you. I wasn't aware of that. I searched the PR database and found
  >  John Baker's entries of July and August 2014 relating to i386.
 
 Some of these things appear only in the bulk build reports - we don't
 transcribe failed builds into the bug database unless someone reports
 them independently.
 
 As a result there are some long-time build problems that you have to
 follow the bulk build reports to really be aware of.
 
 That said:
 
  >  I haven't had this problem on NetBSD 6 amd64 systems.
 
 ...then it probably isn't the same problem.
 
 This package's build system is exceedingly fragile, so most likely if
 you examine the whole build you'll find some other problem earlier in
 the build log than what's above -- most likely it failed to compile or
 link somewhere, ignored the error, and chugged on, so at install time
 there's nothing to install.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost