[csw-maintainers] GAR: adding /opt/csw/gnu to PATH and gettext issues

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 12.06.2012 um 13:20 schrieb pfelecan at opencsw.org:
> When configuring a project which uses gettext I have the following:
> 
> 	checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
> 	checking for msgmerge... no
> 	checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
> 	checking for gmsgfmt... /opt/csw/bin/gmsgfmt
> 
> which raises the following issues:
> 
> 	1. some utilities are taken from the base Solaris supply
> 	2. other utilities are taken from Open CSW supply
> 	3. and some utilities are not found...
> 
> quite a mess; it is very probable that the gettext package has some
> incoherent transforms of the binaries names, some with the 'g' prefix,
> some without.
> 
> All these issues are solved by adding the /opt/csw/gnu path to the
> PATH environment variable:
> 
> 	checking for xgettext... /opt/csw/gnu/xgettext
> 	checking for msgmerge... /opt/csw/gnu/msgmerge
> 	checking for msgfmt... /opt/csw/gnu/msgfmt
> 	checking for gmsgfmt... /opt/csw/bin/gmsgfmt
> 
> This is not the first time that I encounter issues that are solved by
> this addition. Moreover, I think that in many cases, such as the one
> described above, we have a higher coherency.

Yes. Unfortunately adding it by default breaks other recipes which require the
Sun tools which are confused by prepending /opt/csw/gnu.

> Unfortunately, in the configure step of mGAR it is not clear how can
> we enrich the PATH. The only way to do it, from my point of view, is
> to modify its definition in gar.conf.mk
> 
> I remember that there was such a suggestion in the near past but with
> no consequence.
> 
> What do you think?

The idiom to add the path to a specific phase is
  CONFIGURE_ENV_PATH = /opt/csw/gnu:$(PATH)

There are similar variables for the other phases:
  BUILD_ENV_PATH
  TEST_ENV_PATH
  INSTALL_ENV_PATH

To unconditionally add it to all phases you use

  PATH := /opt/csw/gnu:$(PATH)

*after* the include category.mk

PS: What do you think about my other suggestion about modifying the README.CSW handling?


Best regards

  -- Dago

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