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Post #1111173

2026-04-09 08:37 UTC

gnulib adding bogus "Solaris 12" code that breaks illumos, which gets embedded into loads of upstream releases, which all require manual patching. Happy Thursday. Well, at least I get to fully exercise bob development sandboxes... #pkgsrc #illumos #solaris

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  • @jperkin@federate.me.uk 2026-04-09 08:46

    What I particularly like is how things like gettext embed multiple identical copies of gnulib that all need patching: patch-gettext-runtime_gnulib-lib_localename-unsafe.c patch-gettext-runtime_intl_gnulib-lib_localename-unsafe.c patch-gettext-tools_gnulib-lib_localename-unsafe.c Good work Team C.

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