Re: CVS commit: src/external/gpl3

[Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>]

On 26.03.2020 17:03, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 26.03.2020 16:17, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> I don't think we can go from "upstream is unwilling to do X"
>> to "impose pain on NetBSD" by making "divergence bad" be the
>> highest-weighted concern.   We have to say "what is the minimally
>> painful way to cope".
>
> I agree here that we want to get /tmp by default, but in real life we
> lost these local modifications anyway. None of the pkgsrc packages ships
> with this and upstream GCC knows better.. so I keep trying to find a
> creative way to get it done right.
>
> Patching every libiberty copy is almost not doable (we don't patch any
> user of it in pkgsrc).
>
> If I will fail to convince GCC to add a way to tune this tmpdir, we will
> live with these libiberty patches in src.
>
> If GCC will be unconvinced, I don't plan to remove this local modification.
>
> On 26.03.2020 16:56, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
>> We don't need to set TMPDIR=/tmp anywhere because that's already what
>> correct programs use by default (for example, via _PATH_TMP).
>
> Good idea. I will try to reuse _PATH_TMP and submit upstream.
>

OK, I have got another idea how to address it. Thank you for the feedback.