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

[Kimmo Paasiala]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:41 AM, 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?
>>
>
> If this can be made to work reliably with provisions for exceptions, this
> would be absolutely wonderful!
> --

Yes please.