netbsd-5 2014Q2 massive failures

[Greg Troxel]

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?


From: Charlie Root <***@i386-nb5.netbsd.org>
Subject: pkgsrc-2014Q2 NetBSD 5.1/i386 2014-07-09 08:04
To: ***@netbsd.org
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 20:38:36 +0000 (UTC) (16 hours, 14 minutes ago)

pkgsrc bulk build report
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NetBSD 5.1/i386
Compiler: gcc

Build start: 2014-07-09 08:04
Build end: 2014-07-09 20:25

Full report: http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/reports/2014Q2/NetBSD-5.1-i386/20140709.0804/meta/report.html
Machine readable version: http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/reports/2014Q2/NetBSD-5.1-i386/20140709.0804/meta/report.bz2

Total number of packages: 14893
Successfully built: 11409
Failed to build: 350
Depending on failed package: 2825
Explicitly broken or masked: 289
Depending on masked package: 20

Packages breaking the most other packages

Package Breaks Maintainer
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x11/libdrm 2527 ***@NetBSD.org
x11/libX11 1502 ***@NetBSD.org
x11/libXfixes 1478 ***@NetBSD.org

[David Holland]

Post by Greg Troxel
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.