On Mar 18, 2013 2:24 PM, "Baptiste Daroussin" <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 02:15:51PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2013 12:42 PM, "Baptiste Daroussin" <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > The autotools allows us to have a config.site cache where we define our > > defaults > > > values for a couple of things, and prevent the "slow" and possibly wrong > > > autodetection. > > > > > > Here is a patch that makes use of it: > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/autotools_config_site.diff > > > > > > As the libiconv/gettext update has shown the configure scripts can fall > > back on > > > gnu version of commands first if it find it, and in case gettext is > > removed you > > > can get trouble. > > > > > > In this config.site, I hardcoded a couple of FreeBSD binaries in order to > > always > > > use them, but I let the toolchain being autodetected. > > > > > > I also added a couple of headers to avoid useless checks and more can be > > added > > > in the futur. > > > > > > Any thought? > > > > There are some ports that need to use gnu tar, gnu sed, gnu grep and other > > gnu stuff. How will this cache affect on those ports? > > > > > regards, > > > Bapt > > We can always overwrite those in CONFIGURE_ENV if needed, and I'll run an > exp-run to make sure no ports requiring gsed, gtar etc fails.
If it works very well then I think it sounds good. > regards, > Bapt _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"