[RFC] less patches: control the PATH

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 01:11:46PM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a patch to add a new feature I am willing to get for a while:
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12603
> 
> What this patch does it basically prepend to PATH a new directory (inside
> WRKDIR)
> 
> A user can control which binary will be found in the PATH of the build sequences
> easily by adding
> BINARY_RENAME=	source target
> 
> This will create a sumlink in the WRKDIR/.bin directory:
> ${WRKDIR}/.bin/target -> source
> 
> The goal here to avoid patching a port which needs to use for example gsed
> instead of our bsd sed
> BINARY_RENAMe=	gsed sed
> 
> of specify gcc will be gcc7, etc
> 
> This should remove lots of custom patches in the ports tree.
> 
> PS: this should break no port building tool :)
> PS2: the BINARY_RENAME variable name sucks, any better name is welcome :)

renamed BINARY_LINKS which is less worse :)

Best regards,
Bapt
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