Re: pkg/55405: building lang/mercury loops in conftest

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/55405; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/55405: building lang/mercury loops in conftest
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2021 16:37:37 +0000

 On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:10:00PM +0000, mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost wrote:
  > Building lang/mercury hangs because it runs a test program as part
  > of configure that loops infinitely.
  >
  > [test program with highly illegal things involving goto]
 
 I remember seeing something else about this recently but I can't find
 it now. The upshot was that upstream doesn't see this as a problem.
 
 My inclination would be to prefail the configure test by default and
 allow it only on selected platforms where it's known to 'work'.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost