NetBSD pkgsrc is the NetBSD scripts and Makefiles used to build
software, semi-automatically, on NetBSD.  Those scripts have been
ported to several other platforms, notably Mac OS X and Solaris.

Based on your commentary, I wonder if this isn't a Mac OS 10.5
problem, rather than a pkgsrc problem.

Thanks!

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm trying (without success) to build Evolution 2.22.1 on MacOS 10.5.2
>  > with NetBSD pkgsrc.
>
>  Don't assume people here have any idea what "pkgsrc" is.
>
>
>  >  building Evo, itself, fails on link, with a
>  >  duplicate symbol error, on _vfolder_store.
>
>  Both em-folder-browser.c and mail-vfolder.c define the non-static
>  global variable vfolder_store. This is perfectly legal in C as long as
>  both don't define an initial value for it (neither does). Although I
>  guess one could argue, that as what is being linked from the object
>  files here is a shared library and not a "normal" executable, we are
>  in implementation-defined territory. Anyway, clearly it would be
>  better and cleaner if one of the definitions was changed into an
>  extern declaration instead.
>
>  --tml
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