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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:24:47 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: config.guess
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:

> This patch works, but based on the initial amd64 package build with
> your patch in place there are quite a few ports out there that seem to
> require CONFIG_GUESS_DIRS.

Undoubtedly.  OpenBSD has ... 89.  According to the usual scaling
law, FreeBSD should need about four times as many.

> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to automatically replace all
> occurrences of config.{guess,sub} in the ${WRKSRC} tree.

I'm uneasy about such invisible magic, but I don't see why it
shouldn't work.

Really, this is only a matter of portmgr@ coming to a decision.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de