Re: Sanitising make environment in pkgsrc

[Tim Zingelman <tez%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Steven Drake <sbd%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Tim Zingelman wrote:
>> >> > 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.)
>>
>> I'd answer this myself by trying it or reading the code if I was not
>> so busy right now, but does bootstrap use mk.conf?  at the least it
>> makes bootstrapping less clean to require creating the /usr/pkg/etc
>> (or whatever) directory and adding a mk.conf there before starting the
>> bootstrap.
>
> No, but you can use the '--mk-fragment' flag to add a fragment to the
> mk.conf installed in /usr/pkg/etc.
>
> I noted the the bootstrap script add SUNWSPROBASE to the created mk.conf
> already so the change wouldn't affect you at all. :)

I understand that  '--mk-fragment' adds to the created mk.conf... but
does that get created before the boostrap starts compiling stuff, and
is it used in those compiles?

Many of the other pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.* files suggest setting
environment variables to make things work correctly as well.

Thanks,

 - Tim