Re: GCC GNAT 14 issue with gettext

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 09:11:20AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Dmytro Kazankov <dkazankov%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
>> 
>> > That's because the binaries are linked against the pkgsrc version of libintl (and libiconv), but there is no 
>> > dependency on neither libiconv nor gettext-lib in the binary package deps, thus the builtin (base system's) 
>> > versions only are required.
>> 
>> If a package needs a minimum version of a library, that's specified to
>> bl3 via BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.$pkg (see the guide).  Then, the
>> builtin.mk logic will reject the base version, require that the pkgsrc
>> version be installed, and add a dependency on it.   This happens often.
>
> If you check you'll find that this doesn't work in this case, for
> gettext-lib.
>
> devel/gettext-lib/buildlink3.mk has
> BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.gettext+= gettext-lib>=0.22
> (though I'm not quite sure why that is)
>
> but if you include it in a package, the gettext-lib package is not
> installed on NetBSD. NetBSD provides its own code for libintl (the
> Citrus project's one, not the GNU one).

It would seem that the builtin.mk would need to be modified to allow
NetBSD's builtin to be rejected.  It sounds like you are saying that
doesn't happen.

Or am I missing something, and that's just a needed bug fix?

(With apologies to Dmytro for describing what I think ought to be, not
what is....)