Re: long term broken packages

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

On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 03:06:29PM +0000, nia wrote:
 > - databases/geneweb
 > failing on every platform for over a year
 > (ocaml API changes?)

It's at least two major versions behind; updating it would be a good
starting point.

 > - misc/hanzim
 > has never worked in bulk builds, ever ever,
 > but still clutters up the log.
 > Requires an X server to be running (!?)

This has come up before and as best I can recall the eventual
conclusion was to ignore it. My recollection is that it has to start
up a tcl/tk event loop in order to initialize some of its files or
something, such that patching around it would be complicated, and
providing it with a fake X server to connect to during the build is
not worth the trouble.

(We were at one point close enough to zero broken packages to actually
consider doing something about it...)

 > - x11/labltk
 > failing on every platform for over a year
 > "gmake[1]: liblabltk.a: No such file or directory"
 > race condition?

gdt fixed this, problem was RANLIB not being set.

Did we stop passing RANLIB by default at some point? There's no way
things could have ever worked otherwise.

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David A. Holland
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