Re: misc/50166

[Antti Kantee <pooka%iki.fi@localhost>]

On 28/08/15 17:00, Robert Millan wrote:
> El 26/08/15 a les 14:05, Antti Kantee ha escrit:
> > The following reply was made to PR misc/50166; it has been noted by
> > GNATS.
> >
> > From: Antti Kantee <pooka%iki.fi@localhost>
> > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> > Cc:
> > Subject: Re: misc/50166
> > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:02:00 +0000
> >
> >   Adding AC_CANONICAL_HOST() to configure.ac makes configure fail because
> >   a reference to install-sh is generated (and install-sh is not present).
>  > ....
>  > So, I tried it, and indeed there was fallout from AC_CANONICAL_HOST()
> (as noted in the PR).  Can you try to work around it somehow?
> src/tools/make/configure.ac contains the official way to regenerate
> configure.
>
> If you want to keep it simple, I could switch it to use uname instead of
> AC_CANONICAL_HOST(). It
> will break cross-compiling but AFAICS the whole purpose of this script
> is to bootstrap make on
> non-NetBSD systems, which is a very native-build oriented end, and I
> doubt cross-compiling was
> ever intended to work here anyways.
>
> Does that sound good?

I assume you mean cross-compiling in the Canadian sense, i.e. building 
the tools for another system.  I don't know if that works or is intended 
to work.  You can ask tech-toolchain%netbsd.org@localhost and observe the outcry 
or lack thereof.

Testing for availability of MAXPATHLEN would be better, though.  I guess 
you can just look at some tool using MAXPATHLEN and determine what you 
need to include so that you can test if it's available or not.