[Solarpack-devel] Delays

[Julien L. <me...@Ne...>]

Hi all,

I'm almost done with merging with pkgsrc-current as of 2003-09-13. The good
news come first: no major issues with this merge, and we'll reduce the drift
from the main branch since important problems have been solved.

Example: USE_GNU_TOOLS+= awk links the GNU version of a tool (here, 'awk')
that's broken in Solaris inside ${WRKDIR}/.tools/bin, which is prepended to
the path. No more pre-configure targets that links stuff in for packages that
hard-code 'awk' instead of '$(AWK)' or '@AWK@'.

The "bad" news are that pkgsrc is going to freeze (and possibly be tagged
netbsd-1-6-2) at the end of this week, so I'll have to do it all again :(

Besides, my UltraSparc is dying slowly -- that's the drawback of low-cost IDE
drives in otherwise excellent stations (wink). fsck is having a very hard time
recovering after every blackout (we've had three in the past two weeks). Since
I was away from home lately (ah, holidays...), this explains that I haven't
committed much.

I won't be working on zounds at all anymore: I need to focus the little time I
can devolve to Solarpack and NetBSD on one topic...

Cheers,
-- 
Julien T. Letessier                      http://www.mezis.net/
NetBSD developer - Packages collection   http://www.pkgsrc.org/
Solarpack Project member                 http://solarpack.sourceforge.net/

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