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

["Lehel Bernadt (lbernadt)" <Lehel.Bernadt%oneidentity.com@localhost>]

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:10:03PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:05:01PM +0000, nia wrote:
>  >
>  >  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/liba$
>  >
>  >  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.
>
> I think it's reasonable for cases like this to carry patches in
> patches/ against the sources in files/, unless there's some
> infrastructure reason not to that I'm not aware of.
>
> (anyway also please send the fix upstream)

My impression was that this is a pkgsrc/NetBSD helper lib, that's why I did 
report the issue here and not upstream. I have a few workarounds in mk.conf, 
so it's not a problem to add another one; this just seemed a trivial change to 
the configure script.

Regards,
Lehel