Re: pkg/50830: Building pkgsrc packages broken on Darwin/OS X

[Markus Mayer <code%mmayer.net@localhost>]

On 20 February 2018 at 06:45, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR pkg/50830; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Cc: jperkin%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
>         code%mmayer.net@localhost
> Subject: Re: pkg/50830: Building pkgsrc packages broken on Darwin/OS X
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:44:24 +0000
>
>  > Since it&#39;s now two years later, I&#39;m guessing this got sorted out,
>  even
>  > though there&#39;s been no followup in the PR? Pretty sure MacOS builds
>  > have been working for most of the time in between.
>
>  I used pkgsrc on macOS heavily in both 2016 and 17, and there has never
>  been an issue like this. My guess is it is either a local problem, or it
>  can be fixed by re-bootstrapping. This PR should be closed.

Yes, it was fixed by re-bootstrapping. It had something to do with how
64 bit builds were handled on pkgs/Darwin. That messed up
arch-detection with an updated, but not re-bootstrapped pkgsrc tree.

It can indeed be closed.

Thanks,
-Markus