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

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:22:03AM +0200, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
> 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.

Patch has been updated to remove everything connected to the toolchain, and
adding some more commands.

Exp-run is on being run right now by miwi.

If everything is ok and noone object this will be committed, on next tuesday.

regards,
Bapt
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