Hi Magnus , On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 16:29 +0100, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > Sure, I forgot about the greadlink addition. I'll fix that. > > Also, your comment got me wondering if this is the wrong solution after all. > We have tried hard to stay clear of letting environment variables affect the > build, since they are "invisible", impossible to check and creates hard to > debug problems. And now I'm letting in a hoard. :-/ Overriding tools is one > thing, but I'd really prefer to do it on the configure command line. > > I'll see if I can tweak configure to only accept overrides as command line > arguments, and emit warnings or errors if an incorrect override is attempted. > > Stay tuned for a new webrev. > > /Magnus > <snip>
I'd be interested to learn of the context surrounding your assertions WRT environment variables, specifically regarding their invisibility and impossibility to check. TIA & rgds , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it - Robinson Crusoe
