Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 04:36:08PM -0500, Tim Zingelman wrote: >> In that thread I pointed out that a common solaris boostrap passes >> variables in the environment... >> >> env CC=/opt/studio12/SUNWspro/bin/cc \ >> SUNWSPROBASE=/opt/studio12/SUNWspro \ >> ./bootstrap --abi=64 >> >> does this patch still allow that (I had hoped to answer that question >> myself by testing, but ENOTIME today.) > > Usage like this is exactly my concern with the wildcard scrub. > It's not specific to SunPRO either -- there are a number of other > environmental variables people might want to use sanely to affect the > build. I see your point, but on the other hand one of the core doctrines of pkgsrc is repeatable builds. While this is primarily about not having installed packages be picked up as implicit dependencies, I can see the point of not having random environment variables in the user's environment affect things either. Perhaps a solution is to place environment variables in mk.conf, and thus control the environment?
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