Re: [Bug-ed] [PATCH] configure: respect user env settings

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 02 February 2009 06:52:47 Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > so, i see ed-1.2 contains the locale fix, but not the toolchain fix. 
> > whats up ?
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ed/2009-01/msg00001.html
>
> The "toolchain fix" is not a fix, but a step backwards. Specifying
> variables as arguments to configure helps to recreate the same
> configuration later with config.status even if the environment changes.

and as i already pointed out, autotools (which is the "gold" standard for 
configure scripts) respects the environment just fine, even with config.status 
in use.  autoconf has no problem at all saving the state at configure run into 
config.status for later usage.

> BTW, ed-1.2-rc1 contained the same fixes than ed-1.2. Why didn't you
> test it?

i'm pretty busy and cant test everything ...
-mike

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