bug#64698: 29.0.92; on netbsd 9.3, gmake and "gmake bootstrap" fail to proceed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 20:08:42 +0300
> From: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@notcom.org>
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, van.ly@sdf.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, 
>       64698@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Based on an investigation of source trees, libossaudio exists on
> NetBSD and OpenBSD. Comments (diff below) have been updated to reflect
> this. FreeBSD (going back from current to 4.x) and DragonflyBSD (from
> current to 1.2) don't have it.
> 
> configure.ac --with-sound=yes cannot have picked bsd-ossaudio if
> -lossaudio is not found, so this change should not have any effect on
> FreeBSD/DragonflyBSD: LIBSOUND has always ended up empty on those and
> hence the LIBSOUND=-lossaudio test will always fail.
> 
> Meanwhile OpenBSD appears to have behaved the same as NetBSD: use ALSA
> if it exists, otherwise ossaudio. OpenBSD binary packages seem to be
> built with --without-sound
> (https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/editors/emacs/Makefile)
> so this change won't affect their package builds in any case.
> 
> Updated diff (comment update only):

Thanks, installed on the master branch, and closing the bug.

> > This should probably be mentioned in NEWS, then.
> 
> How about this for a NEWS entry:

Thanks, I used it with a few minor changes.