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On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:50:02PM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> What about changing tools.mk so that USE_GNU_TOOLS _always_ picks up a GNU
> variant (it could check if the base system provides it to avoid
> reinstallation), and add a USE_TOOLS that can be used to mark a package as
> needing some special tools?
>=20
> I.e., you do:
>=20
> USE_TOOLS+=3D yacc lex
>=20
> then, tools.mk will try to provide a yacc and a lex that work, as it actu=
ally
> does.
>=20
> But if you do:
>=20
> USE_GNU_TOOLS+=3D yacc lex
>=20
> then you always get the GNU versions.

I think this is a good idea, and I imagine most uses of USE_GNU_TOOLS
except for 'make' will become USE_TOOLS. this naming makes more sense
now that tools.mk does more than just provide GNU tools.

grant.


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