> If you would like to contribute to an effort to fumigate pkgsrc for > alloca uses, please go ahead. [...] However, iirc you won't touch > pkgsrc for some reason :-p
Not so much "won't" has "have no reason to". pkgsrc, at least last I checked, makes no attempt to be useful to me, to support NetBSD older than a version or two. I am not quixotic enough to try to take on building hundreds or thousands of packages, (almost?) all of which I have no use for, on my systems. (To be clear, for all that this is a failing of pkgsrc from the perspective of my use case, it is a totally understandable one and I do not fault them for making that choice.) It *is* true that even when I tracked -current I didn't use pkgsrc. That was long enough ago I no longer clearly recall why not; trying to reconstruct why, what I come up amounts to "too much effort for the benefit": bludgeoning pkgsrc packages into building on my systems was more effort than it was worth in the few cases where pkgsrc had anything I was interested in - and, even then, once pkgsrc was no longer interested in 1.4T, it was of sharply limited value to me in any case. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
