Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>]

On 30/05/2003 at 11:27:21(-0400), Grant Goodyear used 1.0Kbytes just to say:
> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 11:17, William Hubbs wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am working on an ebuild for sus ( http://pdg.uow.edu.au/sus/).
> > 
> > This program doesn't use autoconf.  It just has a makefile which must be
> > edited to set up the locations files should be installed.  What is the best
> > way to handle this?  I can think of two options -- use sed to edit the
> > file, or generate a patch.
> 
> A patch is one more file that you have to maintain, so sed is generally
> preferred if it's not too ugly.

Maybe it would be easy enough to set the necessary makefile macros on the
command-line. i.e.

make PREFIX="$D" CFLAGS="...."

etc.


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