[csw-maintainers] build requirements

[Philip Brown]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:28:49PM -0500, Ben Walton wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I now have a gar description for git that builds it but am seeing
> tests fail.  So far, all failures are related to an implicit
> assumption that sed == gnu sed.  Modifying the test files to call gsed
> seems to get things going.  So, I have a few options:
> 
> 1. Create a patch per 'bad' assumption (where bad == 'bad for me
>    because it makes more work')
> 2. Add some autoconf magic, and alter the test harness to include the
>    file generated by configure, thus allowing for a user specifiable
>    $(sed) program.  Submit this upstream.
> 3. Use PREREQUISITE_PKGS += CSWgnulinks and prepend /opt/csw/gnu to
>    the GARPATH.
> 
> I have my own opinion on which is the best going forward, but am
> curious as to what others think?

in this specific case... having looked at the configure file in question...
i think it may be simplest and cleanest to go with option #3 for this.