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From: Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Patching for PREFIX
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Hi,

I'm making a port of some Perl scripts which have the path to a config
file hard coded into them and I'm wondering what's the best approach.

Basically I want to change /etc to $PREFIX/etc but I need $PREFIX to be
expanded before the patch is applied.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Kevin
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kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk

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