Re: toolchain/42242 (tools build broken)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Oct 29, 12:47pm, ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost (Ignatios Souvatzis) 
wrote:
-- Subject: Re: toolchain/42242 (tools build broken)

| The patch below fixes it.
| 
| Short:
| 
| 1. The new lex needs m4. Our old m4 wasn't GNUish enough, so a workaround
| was added using gm4 from pkgsrc, which wasn't removed when our m4 was
| upgraded. (Thanks to Alan Barret for finding this.)
| 
| (My original problem was caused because I had a broken pkgsrc gm4
| installation. pkg_delete-ing m4 didn't help, as lex still insisted on
| /usr/pkg/bin/m4.)

Oops I forgot to commit this.

| 2. Fixing m4 didn't make toolchain lex work, as toolchain m4 wasn't
| installed in time. It seems to me that the .WAIT magic used in the
| tools Makefiles doesn't work as expected, but only forces early
| installation of the tool immediately before the .WAIT in the list.
| (This is from observation, not from fully understanding the
|  higher-order Makefile magic used.)
| 
| Giving m4 its own .WAIT fixed this for me; maybe a full rewrite
| of the Makefile magic would be better in the long run.

Are you sure this is needed. I will add it anyway, but it looks fishy
to me.

christos