Re: Showstoppers in pkgsrc [Was: Partial update for pulseaudio-0.9.15: libtool-2.x needed]

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 03:24:59PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 03:11:05PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:03:53AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > > The problem is that the NetBSD base system doesn't support all that's
> > > needed by the latest gettext (though I forget what exactly).
> > 
> > NetBSD 4.0 also doesn't have the XSI printf extension for argument
> > reordering. That breaks a lot of programs. Are you willing to fix all
> > the problems?
> 
> What's the connection?
> Is gettext-0.17 using XSI printf extensions?
> If so, it should provide replacements for systems that don't support
> them; does it?
> 
> What are "all the problems"?

It has to redefine printf to implement that. That breaks a lot of
packages that don't link all files with -lintl, even when they include
the headers.

Joerg