Re: major change in handling build tools?

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:01:22 +0900, Hans Rosenfeld <hans%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:

> I guess this is fallout from a change I made a few weeks ago. I added
> detection of several host tools to mk/tools/tools.SunOS.mk, including
> pkg-config and perl.
>
> I assume you're running SunOS 5.10? Pkg-config in that version is too
> old and ignores some of the environment variables set by pkgsrc. I have
> a patch for that and a few other host tool changes that are useful for
> 5.10 and older. I consider this to be an infrastructure change, so I
> wanted to wait until after the freeze before committing it. The correct
> workaround is adding
>         TOOLS_PLATFORM.pkg-config=
> to your mk.conf.

At least, builtin pkg-config version detection should be implemented,
or conditionally added to TOOLS_PLATFORM.pkg-config, like a gmake
for Darwin.

But I feel pkg-config tool is not so big, so I feel there are not so
advantage to use builtin pkg-config with introducing complex rules
(like a AUTORECONF_ARGS).

> The support for perl as a host tool has another bug that needs to be
> fixed. It wasn't visible before because no other platform defined
> TOOLS_PLATFORM.perl before. I have a patch for that, too.
>
> > Please revert it to the original mode of operation.
>
> Can you wait until after the freeze?

I feel that it is hard to fix those issues during freeze.

As far as I know, builtin perl support was added for Darwin few years ago,
but reverted because of various issues.

I would like to +1 to revert it and re-implement after the freeze.

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