re: toolchain/46182

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/46182; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gson%gson.org@localhost (Andreas 
Gustafsson)
Subject: re: toolchain/46182
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:56:12 +1100

 > The following reply was made to PR misc/46182; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: martin%duskware.de@localhost, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
 > Subject: Re: toolchain/46182
 > Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:44:24 +0900
 > 
 >  >   - add more exceptions to the script, so it creats executable scripts 
 > where
 >  >     needed
 >  >  
 >  >   - make sure the whole build does not need to invoke any shell script as
 >  >     direct command (but use "sh $script" instaed)
 >  
 >  IIRC some Makefiles pre-generated by autoconf invoke scripts as
 >  direct command, and it's a bit annoying to fix third party distributions
 >  which may require specific autoconf versions.
 
 in this case i have absolutely no objections to simply patching the
 configure script (and the ignored configure.in, of course) directly.
 
 
 .mrg.