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#NetBSD newcomers will find this interesting #NASA @NASA@mstdn.social uses #pkgsrc for NAS with their Linux system
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Advanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment
Week 5: make(1)
Let's take a look at how the make(1) utility can be used to help us selectively build our code project. You don't need much to get started -- built-in default suffix rules make this easy -- but with time you can build complex build frameworks (see, e.g., #NetBSD's #pkgsrc system). We'll leave the question whether or not make(1) is Turing-complete for another day...
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment: Week 05, Segment 7 - make(1)
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Hey folks!
I have written some travel notes from EuroBSDCon 2026, Brussels, Belgium:
https://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/eurobsdcon_2026_in_brussels_belgium
The conference was amazing and I had a lot of fun and learned a bunch!
Thanks to everyone who made it possible!
#EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon #NetBSD #pkgsrc #FreeBSD #OpenBSD
Mid September #NetBSD #pkgsrc 2026Q2 binary package count update:
11.0: aarch64eb 26342 (+326)
11.0: alpha 11278 (stopped)
11.0: earmv4 8569 (+1939)
11.0: m68k 18739 (+1793)
11.0: powerpc 24272 (+1393)
11.0: riscv64 21612 (+108)
11.0: sh3el 10417 (+378)
11.0: sparc64 5147 (+2573)
11.0: vax 7646 (+148)
Looks like, with the great help of @AnachronistJohn@zia.io , @abs0@mastodon.sdf.org and @jaypatelani@bsd.network , I switched my NetBSD system from using binary packages via pkgin to the pkgsrc and building packages from source 
https://eugene-andrienko.com/2026-09-07-bsd-pkgsrc-ports.html
For now, it works and I'm able to have some packages in my system, with the necessary compile-time options. And only one version of Python interpreter installed, not two 
. Also removed a lot of unnecessary packages, so the disk space usage went down from 18 Gb to 17 Gb
#NetBSD #pkgsrc
https://eugene-andrienko.com/2026-09-07-bsd-pkgsrc-ports.html
For now, it works and I'm able to have some packages in my system, with the necessary compile-time options. And only one version of Python interpreter installed, not two . Also removed a lot of unnecessary packages, so the disk space usage went down from 18 Gb to 17 Gb
#NetBSD #pkgsrc
🎉 100th post on this instance running the latest homemade gotosocial-0.22.1 pkgsrc NetBSD package
Lets push the update to pkgsrc-wip 📦
#gotosocial #pkgsrc #netbsd
Decided to dig into what I initially suspected was hardware issues on a host performing "pkgin upgrade" very slowly.
No, turns out it's legitimate requests hammering the disks, with pkg_delete performing an MD5 check on every file it is about to forcibly remove anyway.
Eventually it'd be nice to add a flag for this, but for now I've removed it for my builds:
https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/commit/87055e3a0c53f409a0cf1efa887a3cb96afe0757
This will be in macOS and SmartOS builds soon, and will significantly improve upgrade performance.
#pkgsrc
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portability(TM) #netbsd #pkgsrc #tigersrc
- alix3d3 (i586) - it finds out what uses SSE2 when it shouldn't
- er4 (evbmips64n64eb) - it finds out when things hardcode a list of supported archs
- mac mini (powerpc; usually runs darwin) - it finds out when things don't specify a c/c++ lang std
- olimex a64 (aarch64) - it finds out when the arm drivers get too piney.
- banana pi (earmv7hfeb) - ugh.
- blade 150 (sparc64, bottom) - it finds out EVERYTHING.
100% not running 24/7.
If you've ever built a non-trivial amount of software on Solaris / illumos you've almost certainly hit math function errors like this:
error: call of overloaded 'log(int)' is ambiguous
I got fed up of adding patches to pkgsrc, and I believe I have a patch that fixes this once and for all.
https://www.illumos.org/issues/15209#note-4
I'd appreciate wider testing. I've already tested it in a full ~28,000 package bulk build, but changes like this terrify me, and you can't be too careful.
#solaris #illumos #pkgsrc
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