Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
>
>> In any case, are you asking that Cross-LFS investigate the idea of
>> using a
>> config.site for their build?
>
>
> Yes, for both Cross-LFS and regular LFS.
I was not aware of config.site and feel it may be appropriate for some
packages or sets of packages in BLFS. Right now I'm looking at KDE.
I have some questions about implementation.
In the kdebase package, the generic INSTALL instructions say:
If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,
you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives
default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
`configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
`PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists. Or, you can set the
`CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.
I don't see how PREFIX is set. When I look at configure, thee is the
code:
if test -z "$CONFIG_SITE"; then
if test "x$prefix" != xNONE; then
CONFIG_SITE="$prefix/share/config.site $prefix/etc/config.site"
else
CONFIG_SITE="$ac_default_prefix/share/config.site
$ac_default_prefix/etc/config.site"
fi
fi
$ac_default_prefix defaults to /usr/local. Of course, if $prefix is
set, then there isn't a problem, but that is one of the things we are
trying to set in config.site. This is a circular dependency.
So it looks like the config.site file must be in /usr/local/share or
/usr/etc or at a location defined by `export
CONFIG_SITE=/some/dir/config.site'.
Do I have this right?
Secondly, can I use this file to do more than define prefix and the
other directories? For instance, in KDE, I would like to automatically
define --enable-final --disable-debug and
--disable-dependency-tracking for configure in all the KDE packages. I
don't see a way to do this using config.site.
Am I missing something? If we need to specify something on the
./configure line, we might as well list all the items we are configuring.
Note: I know this is the lfs-dev list and not blfs-dev, but even though
I have discussed KDE above, I think the discussion is appropriate to all
or most of the LFS packages too.
-- Bruce
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