Re: libarchive compatibility issue

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:07:59PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 08:32:53AM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
> > libarchive appears to need a few more autoconf feature checks - compiling
> > pkg_install on NetBSD 1.5 gives me
> [snip]
> > archive_write_disk_set_standard_lookup.o: Undefined symbol `_getgrnam_r'
> > referenced from text segment
> > archive_write_disk_set_standard_lookup.o: Undefined symbol `_getpwnam_r'
> > referenced from text segment
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > *** Error code 1
> [snip]
> > 
> > Sorry, no patch.
> 
> Feel free to submit patches. My interest in retro computing is limited.

sounds like it's time to revert the dependency on libarchive then, and go
back to using external commands, if libarchive will not support all of our
pkgsrc platforms.

joerg - your interest in retro computing has just increased rapidly :-)

regards,
alistair