Elm ME's configure tries to establish the location of several tools
(cat, grep, echo, make, shar, tar). However, on systems where there are
also non-GNU/BSD/... variants of these apps available that do not work
too well (such as make on IRIX 5.3) this prevents this from compiling on
pkgsrc.
Maybe the easiest way to get around this is to specify them explicitely
when calling bmake.
One way to do this in the Makefile would be

ALL_TARGET+=            CAT=${CAT} GREP=${GREP} ECHO={ECHO} MAKE=${MAKE}
TAR=${TAR}

Is this a good approach?
Maybe pkgsrc has already provisions for such cases readily available? 

On IRIX 5.3 the elm-me configure also sets I_INTTYPES while it rather
should not (because inclusing both inttypes.h and sys/types.h does not
work there)
Is this some "feature" of GNU configure? Is there an elegant way around
it? 

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