NetBSD Problem Report #29006

From joff@oz.embeddedx86.com  Wed Jan 19 02:53:38 2005
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Subject: include libz support in src/tools/compat [change-req]
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>Number:         29006
>Category:       toolchain
>Synopsis:       include libz support in src/tools/compat [change-req]
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    lukem
>State:          closed
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 19 02:54:00 +0000 2005
>Closed-Date:    Thu May 18 08:16:54 +0000 2023
>Last-Modified:  Sat May 20 08:34:12 +0000 2023
>Originator:     joff@embeddedARM.com
>Release:        NetBSD 2.99.14
>Organization:
	Technologic Systems
>Environment:
System: NetBSD oz 1.6.2_STABLE NetBSD 1.6.2_STABLE (DELL400SC) #1: Wed Jul 21 21:00:42 MST 2004 joff@oz:/u/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/DELL400SC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	Without zlib on host system, build.sh is doomed to fail.  This is commonly not included
	and adds to intimidating complexity for potential cross-builder-people in pre-environment
	setup.
>How-To-Repeat:
	try a default install of Interix, watch build fail.
>Fix:
	would prefer just including support for zlib in src/tools/compat, but good documentation on
	bootstrapping Interix for  pre- build.sh invocation which includes described gotcha would also suffice.

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: lukem@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Thu, 18 May 2023 08:16:54 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
The top-level ./BUILDING document refers to tools/compat/README as 
"Special notes for cross-hosting a NetBSD build on non-NetBSD platforms"
and has done since 2003-12-29.  

tools/compat/README has had platform-specific comments about zlib
being required since that file was created in 2002-02-01, and those
zlib dependency comments were made generic in 2021-05-06.

After 21 years it's safe to say that we're not going to get around to
adding zlib to tools/compat, and requiring that as a build dependency
is sufficient.


Responsible-Changed-From-To: toolchain-manager->lukem
Responsible-Changed-By: lukem@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat, 20 May 2023 08:34:12 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:


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