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

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