On Sun, October 17, 2010 4:24 pm, Francois Tigeot wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 12:21:24PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: >> >> : >> :The 2010Q3 release of pkgsrc has been branched - how close are we to >> :branching DragonFly 2.8? I'd like to get both building for the pkgsrc >> :binaries. >> >> I will branch 2.8.0 this evening. We will bump it to 2.8.1 and >> resync from master when we actually release (if we actually >> release <--- only a partial joke there). > > Even though it is not really a DragonFly issue per se, I feel the > gettext-lib > bug in pkgsrc is a nasty show-stopper. > > With this bug, a 64-bit system with a non-default locale is simply > unusable. > > What can we do if the fix is not committed to pkgsrc ?
Have you tried asking on any of the pkgsrc mailing lists? I daresay it's still there just cause people don't realize it's there. The last time I tried poking pkgsrc people for a particular problem (yay alliteration), I got results.
