Am 11.04.2006 um 22:22 schrieb Jeremy C. Reed:

> Should each mk/tools/tools.$OPSYS.mk just check for the existence of
> native and if not then use the bootstrap version if it exists?

if on a given OS one cannot resonably assume that the given tool is  
present at that location mk/tools/tools.$OPSYS.mk should check before  
using it.
As an example, tools.IRIX.mk does so for gzcat and gzip, which are  
not part of all versions.

However, for tar on any recent BSD OS I would assume that one can  
savely point where it is installed without checking for it.


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