Re: pkg/56843 (Building ncurses on Fedora 35 leads to error mv: 'demo.o' and '../obj_lo/demo.o' are the same file)

[Eric Garver <eric%garver.life@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/56843; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eric Garver <eric%garver.life@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
	gutteridge%NetBSD.org@localhost, iam%natejohnston.info@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/56843 (Building ncurses on Fedora 35 leads to error mv:
 'demo.o' and '../obj_lo/demo.o' are the same file)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:21:16 -0500

 I also see this problem on RHEL-9.3. ncurses is presumably built because
 of PREFER_PKGSRC=yes (bootstrap default).
 
 Setting PREFER_NATIVE=curses seems to solve my issues, because it avoids
 building ncurses. ;)
 
 Eric.
 
 NB: I'm building as root because this is a throw away test machine.
 
 --->8---
 
 [root@dell-r730-041 ncurses]# ~/pkg-2023Q3/bin/bmake MAKE_JOBS=1
 [..]
 mv: 'demo.o' and '../obj_lo/demo.o' are the same file
 make[1]: *** [Makefile:267: ../obj_lo/demo.lo] Error 1
 make: *** [Makefile:142: all] Error 2