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Re: Use stricter PATH during build



On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 06:56:04PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> If there isn't consensus to just add it (if it breaks a lot of packages,
> seems premature), how about committing it but defaulting to off, with
> PKG_DEVELOPER_STRICT_PATH=YES enabling it?

Let me put it differently. A while ago I started to fix build breakage
when PATH doesn't contain PREFIX/bin. I gave up fighting the windmills
after a while. This will give even worse fallout. Who will fix that?

The real issue is that this is very like to just disable features
silently.

Joerg


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