From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B8C5158232 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2024 00:44:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BA41E0AD0; Fri, 6 Dec 2024 00:44:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 80F53E0AC6 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2024 00:44:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mertle.michael.orlitzky.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C688612C0F1F; Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:44:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 19:44:04 -0500 From: Michael Orlitzky To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/default/linux: export cache variables for sed and friends Message-ID: References: <4bfc3e7b67c2a1398c8efa9700b66fe9ac0f2736.1733352922.git.sam@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4bfc3e7b67c2a1398c8efa9700b66fe9ac0f2736.1733352922.git.sam@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 70f8bd4b-90a7-4404-a5fe-098067609fab X-Archives-Hash: 2d8c531abcfa03fa1c4b7e6f140d2336 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)?