Subject: Re: gnupg2 build failure on netbsd-3
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/11/2006 07:47:50
On Monday 11 December 2006 06:00, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> writes:
> > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:04:53PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >> It may also be that gnupg2 doesn't really need the version it claims,
> >> but that's a separate issue.
> >
> > No, it isn't. The *API* of gettext never changed. Some tools got new
> > options and a few advanced features -- but that's no reason to require
> > an update of gettext. In that regard gnupg2 is simply broken. I haven't
> > had time to look at it though.
>
> Sure it's separate.
>
> One issue is whether gnupg2 really needs 0.14.1 of the GNU gettext
> package (because of a runtime behavior change, or because it uses some
> of the new tool options/features at build time).
gnupg2-2.0.1 apparently builds and works without the "required" gettext
version 15.0. After further testing I'll commit the update to
security/gnupg2.
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