Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:54:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, autotools@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFT] add a config.site cache for the ports Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303191352400.93137@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20130318174150.GN72627@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20130318174150.GN72627@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Hi, > > The autotools allows us to have a config.site cache where we define our defaults > values for a couple of things, and prevent the "slow" and possibly wrong > autodetection. > > Here is a patch that makes use of it: > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/autotools_config_site.diff > > As the libiconv/gettext update has shown the configure scripts can fall back on > gnu version of commands first if it find it, and in case gettext is removed you > can get trouble. > > In this config.site, I hardcoded a couple of FreeBSD binaries in order to always > use them, but I let the toolchain being autodetected. > > I also added a couple of headers to avoid useless checks and more can be added > in the futur. > > Any thought? Avoiding the repeated detection of the exact same things could seriously reduce build times for big ports. Thank you!
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