Re: How to bootstrap when sed and awk are unusable

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2018-08-08 at 08:19 BST, Benny Siegert wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:17 AM Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > * On 2018-08-08 at 08:11 BST, Benny Siegert wrote:
> >
> > > Because the system has no diff and patch, diffutils is built as a tool
> > > early in the bootstrap and fails with
> >
> > Why?  Everything in bootstrap is already unpacked and patched, so
> > there should be no need for this.  Try and find out why this is being
> > performed first.
> 
> Good point! Somehow, bootstrap-mk-files has a tool dependency on patch.
> 
> ===> Installing packages
> ===> running: (cd /usr/local/pkgsrc/pkgtools/bootstrap-mk-files &&
> /usr/local/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bin/bmake  MAKE_JOBS=8
> PKG_COMPRESSION=none -DPKG_PRESERVE
> MAKECONF=/usr/local/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/mk.conf install)
> ===> Installing dependencies for bootstrap-mk-files-20170802
> => Tool dependency diffutils>=2.8.1: NOT found

Ok, so looks like it's coming via:

  mk/check/bsd.check-vars.mk:USE_TOOLS+=	awk cat cmp diff echo find grep rm sed test touch true

which is included unconditionally.  Maybe we should skip that if
bootstrapping, or set TOOLS_PLATFORM.cmp=${TRUE} etc in the bootstrap
mk.conf.

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