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

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

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

From: "Lehel Bernadt (lbernadt)" <Lehel.Bernadt%oneidentity.com@localhost>
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Subject: Re: pkg/56186: libarchive: fix dirfd() check
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 14:21:05 +0000

 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.c=
 om 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=
 =20
 report the issue here and not upstream. I have a few workarounds in mk.conf=
 ,=20
 so it's not a problem to add another one; this just seemed a trivial change=
  to=20
 the configure script.
 
 Regards,
 Lehel=