[CFT] add a config.site cache for the ports

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mar 18, 2013 12:42 PM, "Baptiste Daroussin" <bapt at freebsd.org> 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?

There are some ports that need to use gnu tar, gnu sed, gnu grep and other
gnu stuff. How will this cache affect on those ports?

> regards,
> Bapt