Re: pkgsrc-2013Q4 freeze: security/openssl build failure (patch review)

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 04:44:18PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> security/openssl doesn't build on arm, and after inspecting the
> cause, can't build on any NetBSD platform without assembler
> implementations of crypto/modes, and neither on Interix:
> 
> Something in the Configure infrastructure changed at some point,
> and the constant - ::::::::: needed in part of the configuration
> table needs to be replaced by :${no_asm}: ; there are examples in
> that table for other OSes. As the patch-ac is now, -fPIC gets
> stuffed into the list of objects to build.
> 
> Patch appended.
> 
> * I've built and "make test"-ed it on NetBSD/shark-5.1.2_PATCH/pkgsrc-2013q3,
>   successfully
> * The patch applies cleanly to pkgsrc-current
> * I've built and make test-ed on NetBSD-i386-6.1/pkgsrc-current, successfully
> * I've built and make test-ed on NetBSD-i386-6.1/pkgsrc-2013q3, successfully
> 
> May I commit?

On NetBSD in general, isn't the builtin version used? So why do we
need these fixes, and why now?
 Thomas