[Chicken-janitors] Re: #184: NetBSD is omitted from list of ELF platforms in csc

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#184: NetBSD is omitted from list of ELF platforms in csc
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  Reporter:  sjamaan  |       Owner:        
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  closed
  Priority:  major    |   Milestone:  4.5.0 
 Component:  unknown  |     Version:  4.3.x 
Resolution:  fixed    |    Keywords:        
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Changes (by felix):

  * milestone:  => 4.5.0


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:2 sjamaan]:
 >
 > Anyway, I added this as a patch to pkgsrc (pending a commit by Alexey)
 so the release will work fine.

 Very good - thanks for this.

 >
 > How important is the second bit? What does it do?  (I didn't add that to
 pkgsrc, and without it, it seems to work, so that's why I'm asking)

 It's only for deployment (creating a directory with an executable setup to
 load its libchicken from the directory where it is located). This requires
 setting the runpath to `$ORIGIN` on ELF systems, but this is broken on
 older NetBSD versions.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.irp.oist.jp/trac/chicken/ticket/184#comment:4>
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