Comments on pkgsrc and DragonFly

[Samuel J. Greear]

> both are excluding DragonFly, since uname -s return "DragonFly" and
> OSARCH is usually set to the same value. I can solve this by redefining
> OSARCH variable and UNAME_s shell variable as "DragonFlyBSD", which
> makes less work to do. But it doesn't seem very clean to me, so I'm not
> using it. But it does mean that choosing FreeBSD as build type won't
> necessarly mean no changes required on the autotool scripts.
>
> - Some programs are compiling successfully by defining FreeBSD as build
> type. Is DragonFly kept close as possible to FreeBSD on purpose or
> should we expect this to be a vanishing legacy?
>
> Official positions here will me help me knowing what to expect while
> porting.
>
> Thanks,
>
> SR
>

Vanishing legacy, never depend on it.

Sam