Re: PR/49852 CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/socat

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/49852; 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: PR/49852 CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/socat
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:32:36 +0000

 On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 06:20:01PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
  >  >  Someone added it because it was breaking *something*; maybe it would
  >  >  have been a good idea to find out what and sort it out before
  >  >  rebreaking the package. :-p
  >  
  >  Setting ONLY_FOR_COMPILER is not really going to fix that something, at
  >  best it will hide the issue behind "this is not supported".
 
 Sure, but now we're open-loop waiting for someone to notice something
 wrong somewhere else.
 
 Of course the cvs history just says "only for gcc", and that was in
 2008, so probably the information's lost anyway.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost