Re: packages requiring ar and nm

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger schrieb:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 09:02:59PM +0200, Georg Schwarz wrote:
> > I tried to build lang/gcc3-c on Solaris 8. This fails when ar and nm
> > cannot be found in the shell path.
>
> I would say "Fix your shell path".

I wouldn't. I see ar and nm as regular tools like all the others. The 
setting of PATH at the time of building packages should have little 
influence on the tools. That's why they can be set explicitly in 
mk.conf, isn't it?

Roland