Re: current tools no longer build on 9.3

On 1/16/26 11:56 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Staffan Thomén  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> It seems that an assumption has been made in lib/libc/time/zic.c where
>> HAVE_GETRANDOM is unconditionally defined for NetBSD builds. This
>> (linux, non-standard function with an amusingly scathing BUGS section in
>> the man page) function was introduced in 10.0 and causes builds on
>> earlier releases to fail tools.
>>
>> The change seems to have been made in version 1.96 of the file in
>> december 2025.
>>
>> Just removing the HAVE_GETRANDOM define seems to make it build on my 9.3
>> build system. I would hope that we don't consider netbsd-9 too obsolete
>> to build on... perhaps this could be __NetBSD_Version__ gated if it's
>> desired?
> 
> Sure, send a patch :-)

Too late, nia@ already committed a fix :-)

Staffan