Convert to markdown because the previous style was too confusing. A
lot of this is ancient; mark it as such. Fold in comments from Peter
Lai about working/non-working gcc versions.
Add text from Cygnus X-1 via pkgsrc-users@, add an overview, and
attempt to hoist details to the right level.
This needs some editing by people who know more about Solaris than I
do. A lot seems off, like gcc 2.95 being ok, and I would expect one
needs a C++ compiler too.
Minix3 has a user. Combine "almost no users" and "no users"; the
point is really the last date we have a report of how it works, and
that only takes one person.
Adjust/shorten language.
A number of README names have caught up with platform name changes;
adjust them.
Demote OSF1 to "believe to have no users", since people say it doesn't
work and nobody is saying otherwise.
extra_libarchive_depends(). Oops. Now that the problem has bitten me (on
Manjaro ARM), I can attest that single-quoting fixes it. Sorry, tyil,
and thanks again!
Libs.private before, but it does on Gentoo ("-lmd -lb2"), so failing to
double-quote the output breaks bootstrap there. Adding the quotes causes
no regressions bootstrapping macOS Monterey or Ubuntu 21.10. Problem
report and solution from p.spek@tyil.nl.
This should not be used under normal circumstances, however on arm64 macOS it
is currently impossible to execute native arm64 binaries inside a chroot, and
so the chroot must run in x86_64 mode via Rosetta. This causes uname/arch/etc
to all report that the system is x86, and so the only way to force MACHINE_ARCH
to be set correctly to "aarch64" is using this argument.
This is part 1 to support additional platforms with the RC scripts provided in
pkgsrc, in privileged as well as in unprivileged mode, including on NetBSD
(with part 2 in pkgtools/rc.subr).
This variable is meant to point to the configuration directory of the base
system (as opposed to pkgsrc's own prefix) when it should be used by pkgsrc in
special cases (e.g. installing RC scripts), or to point to the existing
PKG_SYSCONFBASE directory otherwise (e.g. for any unprivileged bootstrap).
This teaches pkgsrc where the RC scripts should be installed, and more
importantly, where the local copy of rc.subr can be expected. Part 3 will
progressively update each and every RC script to substitute this path as
expected.
No functional changes are intended in privileged mode without a bootstrap. The
only variable affected by this change directly is RCD_SCRIPTS_DIR, which
currently remains with the same default of /etc/rc.d, and can be overridden as
before.
When bootstrapping, SYSCONFBASE also remains with the existing default when no
prefix is set or is "/usr/pkg" or "/usr"; it is set to $prefix/etc otherwise. It
can be specified specifically with --sysconfbase if necessary.
Existing installations or bootstraps are not affected, as this change needs
setting SYSCONFBASE in the corresponding $sysconfdir/mk.conf to have an impact.
Tested in privileged and unprivileged modes on NetBSD/amd64, and unprivileged
mode on Darwin/amd64; submitted for review on tech-pkg@.
From a discussion with jperkin, who tested this on bulk builds, the
remaining issues with non-BSD echo are in legacy wrappers.
Keep the workaround to use bash on Debian GNU kFreeBSD because it still
uses legacy wrappers and add a comment that that's why it's there.
Now naive usage of bootstrap on many popular Linux distros doesn't require
setting an environment variable.
can catch users out with the two --prefer options. Make the parsing
of these better by checking their argument exists and is not another
command line option.
Addresses PR#55952. Reviewed with jperkin@
