a) Possible
b) Not really, since there should be a ${WRKDIR} in existence before
"make show-shlib-type" is called.
c) put the .if ${OBJECT_FMT} == "ELF" stuff in .if defined(OBJECT_FMT)
guards

I'd really prefer it if we attacked the problem at the roots, though -
fixing all the package Makefiles may be the best option.

Regards,
Alistair

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:22:59PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	I've had a proper look at it, and the problem comes with packages
> 	that have constructs of the form:
> 
> 		.if ${OBJECT_FMT} == "ELF"
> 
> 	Either we should:
> 
> 	    a) Fix all such Makefiles (around 34)
>  	    b) Catch OBJECT_FMT not being set and fix it in bsd.pkg.mk.
> 	       How about using OBJECT_FMT!= make show-shlib-type in a
> 	       .if !defined(OBJECT_FMT)?
> 
> 		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
> 
> 
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:46:09PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > 	pkgsrc currently assumes the base system sets OBJECT_FMT.
> > > 	This is not the case in 1.3 - and in addition to producing
> > > 	various warning messages it breaks the install in some cases
> > > 	- I have a 1.3 machine on which I cannot install
> > > 	imap-uw-2000.0.3nb1 unless I have installed libtool with
> > > 	OBJECT_FMT manually set.
> >
> > The only places where I see OBJECT_FMT used in bsd.pkg.mk, there are
> > checks around it - if OBJECT_FMT is undefined, then you will just not
> > have your shared libs checked in the check-shlibs target, and the
> > dependency checks will either exit or warn depending on the value of
> > FATAL_OBJECT_FMT_SKEW.
> >
> > Please note that I'm not speaking for libtool here.
> >
> > > 	I think we should test for OBJECT_FMT and set it for older NetBSD
> > > 	systems, but what is the best way - a switch table similar to that
> > > 	in bsd.own.mk, or some nasty 'file' command on the pkg_install
> > > 	binary?
> >
> > If you're really interested in what type of shared lib will be made on
> > the machine, then you can use:
> >
> > 	make show-shlib-type
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alistair
> >
>