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Date:      Sun, 7 Mar 1999 00:13:35 +1030 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za>
Cc:        Satoshi Asami <asami@freebsd.org>, garyj@muc.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: all those .la files
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9903070012110.19176-100000@bragg>
In-Reply-To: <19990304172534.C85737@shale.csir.co.za>

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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Jeremy Lea wrote:

> > That way we only need to fix one broken port instead of dozens, no? :)
> 
> Yes, that was Kris's plan, which I'm beginning to like more and more... 
> I haven't looked at it yet, but if most ports are using libtool.m4 ->
> aclocal.m4 -> configure, then we might be able to get away with
> 'patching' via a sed script in bsd.port.mk (as a post-patch target),
> rather than patching 20 million configures.

Yep, that should work. All the ones I've done seem to have exactly the same
format, so could be updated automatically via sed as you suggest.

Kris

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