Re: pkg/56186: libarchive: fix dirfd() check

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/56186; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/56186: libarchive: fix dirfd() check
Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 18:01:38 +0000

 On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:40:00PM +0000, lehel.bernadt%oneidentity.com@localhost wrote:
 > I was trying to build software on AIX 6.1 that pulled in archivers/libarchive, for which the linking failed with undefined symbol .dirfd. It turns out AIX 6.1 is missing some of the POSIX.2008 functionality, including the dirfd() call. This would be handled by libarchive, but the feature is misdetected by the configure script:
 
 I think we'd rather avoid diffs against libarchive because we don't
 maintain it. This could likely also be fixed with a
 CONFIGURE_ENV.AIX override.