Re: Use stricter PATH during build

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Masao Uebayashi wrote:

> This makes pkgsrc build use stricter PATH during build; that is, don't
> use PATH passed by user.
>
>        http://www.NetBSD.org/~uebayasi/stricter-path.patch
>
> This is experimental, but this shows interesting results.  Problems
> I've found so far are:
>
> - emulator/emulator.mk calls file(1) implicitly, which should be a TOOLS
> - GNU configure usually uses uname(1) which is missed in TOOLS too

        Anything which makes a build less dependent on vagaries of the
        hosting system is a good thing... This I like :)

        While we are here, how about pkgsrc setting umask?

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