How to best check a configuration of another port/package?

[Steve Wills]

Hi,

On 6/9/19 11:48 AM, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> 
> No, you're absolutely right. Flavours is the right way to do it now. I
> keep forgetting about them, because I don't in any way understand how
> to use them.

Hmm, flavors have to be something that can be installed in parallel, 
right? How does that impact binutils?

The approach I would have taken would have been to make the static 
option in binutils also install an empty file in DATADIR and have GCC 
check that file. Maybe that isn't ideal.

Steve