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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: export cache variables for sed and friends
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 19:44:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z1JI1N5FUJ-ET3TM@mertle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4bfc3e7b67c2a1398c8efa9700b66fe9ac0f2736.1733352922.git.sam@gentoo.org>

On 2024-12-04 22:55:22, Sam James wrote:
> Prompted by yet another instance of this, this time at
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1171999.html.
> 
> The results of these tests are often hardcoded into installed files
> which causes issues if using a binpkg of them from a merged-usr system
> on a non-merged-usr system. Just set the cache variables to avoid that.
> ...
> +ac_cv_path_SED="sed"

Obviously it would defeat the purpose to put a full path in there, but
won't this break software that expects them to be a path (since that's
what the autoconf macros are documented to do)?


  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-06  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-04 22:55 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: export cache variables for sed and friends Sam James
2024-12-06  0:44 ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2024-12-10  5:46   ` Sam James
2024-12-10  8:02     ` Ionen Wolkens
2024-12-10  8:13       ` Sam James
2024-12-10  8:26       ` Eli Schwartz
2024-12-10  8:57         ` Ionen Wolkens
2024-12-10  9:22         ` Ionen Wolkens
2024-12-10  5:54   ` Eli Schwartz
2024-12-10 18:31     ` Michael Orlitzky
2024-12-10 19:33       ` Eli Schwartz
2024-12-10 22:03         ` Michael Orlitzky

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