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Date:      Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:15:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: etc/rc.d/kdelibs.sh (Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/kdelibs2 Makefile)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108291415040.1314-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <200108291725.f7THPG551262@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> Because the compilation process (for ports/packages in particular) has
> no a priori knowledge of where the libraries in question will be
> located on the target system.  We try to build binaries that are as
> free as possible from assumptions about how the filesystem structure
> is arranged for optional add-on software.

So a utility to edit the comipiled in search paths might be useful.

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