[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Enable -deploy on NetBSD [was: Re: [PATCH] Enable -deploy on OpenBSD]

[Peter Bex]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 07:35:15PM +0100, Peter Bex wrote:
> Thanks, pushed.  Because I tagged 4.8.3 (after Evan's patch introducing
> a change to our types.db type hierarchy that seemed a good idea) I
> had to move the NEWS entry to be below a 4.8.4 heading.

I read up on ORIGIN support in NetBSD, and as noted in our manual,
NetBSD supports origin from 5.0 onwards.  Since older versions of
NetBSD are no longer supported (4.0 got EOL'ed November 2012, see
http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/end_of_life_for_4) I think it's
safe to enable it on NetBSD as well.

As explained in the problem report here
http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=42420
this only works when invoking the binary through its absolute
path (which includes running it implicitly, via $PATH), so I've
updated our tests to prefix the deploy test program with `pwd`,
and now it works on NetBSD as well.

Please see the attached patch.

Cheers,
Peter
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