Re: pkg/37929

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/37929; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/37929
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 10:09:17 +0100

 On Mon,  4 Feb 2008 07:20:04 +0000 (UTC)
 Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost> wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/37929; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/37929
 > Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:19:05 +0300
 > 
 >  I tried proposed patch and ran into this:
 >  
 >  checking whether /var/tmp/pkgobj/misc/openoffice2/work/.tools/bin/patch is 
 > GNU patch... Patch version 2.1
 >  configure: error: no, GNU patch needed. install or specify with 
 > --with-gnu-patch=/path/to/it
 >  *** Error code 1
 >  
 >  Stop.
 >  
 >  I tried to skip it adding "CONFIGURE_ARGS+= 
 > --with-gnu-path=/usr/pkg/bin/gpath"
 >  to Makefile, but the build stopped with another complaint:
 >  
 >  .. configure: error: no, GNU cp needed. install or specify with 
 > --with-gnu-cp=/path/to/it
 >  
 >  
 >  This is rather frequent type of errors I encounter on FreeBSD, 
 >  when GNU tools are required instead of native ones. I'd be grateful,
 >  if someone with more knowledge explained, what the matter is, and 
 >  how to deal with it in general case so as to save my and yours time
 >  in future.
 >  
 
 If you can find out which "cv" variables need to be set in the
 environment to override these checks we can add them to pkgsrc
 infrastructure. (Under the assumption that these are indeed bogus
 errors and FreeBSD's userland is sufficiently compatible.)