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Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do!
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
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In-Reply-To: <199611220846.TAA18430@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 22, 96 07:16:32 pm
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In reply to Michael Smith who wrote:
> 
> > Or we should invent a system (which could be based on the current
> > contrib system), where its selectable if you want those tools
> > and the utils that *might* depend on them. This solution I could
> > live with, and I'm sure many of the other "purists"...
> 
> This is what I have been pushing for ever since I started this thread.
> Is it (technically) possible to put a conditional around the makefiles
> for possibly contentious 'contrib' residents so that they won't be
> built if the src/contrib/<foo> directory isn't present?

We kind of have this allready in the main Makefile (crypto stuff etc)
so the skeletton is there..
Well, it can be done, anybody has some spare slots on thier TODO lists ??


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