Re: netbsd-5 2014Q2 massive failures

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 08:55:22AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
 > The bulk report below shows critical X11 packages failing on netbsd-5.
 > I can build libX11 on netbsd-5 with X11_TYPE=modular, so I wonder if it
 > only fails for native - but if so, why there are so many depending
 > failed packages.  Does anyone understand what's going on?

Because the infrastructure isn't strong enough, pkgsrc ends up
insisting on building pkgsrc versions of some X libraries. If these
don't build against the other (native) X libraries, it all goes
wahooni-shaped like this.

I thought we had changed the default for -5 to be pkgsrc X though.

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David A. Holland
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