Re: grep-3.8.11-908f on NetBSD 9.0

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 2:33 AM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
>
> On NetBSD 9.0, the compilation succeeds and 1 test fails:
>
> FAIL: filename-lineno
>
> Since the test suite log contains the string
>   grep: Shared object "libpcre2-8.so.0" not found
> I looked around for libpcre. Indeed, there is a file
>   /usr/pkg/lib/libpcre2-8.so.0
> that is a symbolic link pointing to
>   /usr/pkg/lib/libpcre2-8.so.0.10.2
> and the latter is an ELF shared library.
>
> The reason why it could not be found is probably that /usr/pkg/lib is not
> among the runtime linker's search path and not declared as an RPATH:
>
...
> I plan to fix the missing/broken rpath problem with pkgconfig this year [1];
> this ought to fix this situation. Therefore I wouldn't mind if you leave
> this problem aside for now.
>
> Bruno
>
> [1] https://gitlab.com/ghwiki/gnow-how/-/wikis/Discussion-about-pkg-config

Thanks for the testing and analysis.
I agree this needn't defer the release.