From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1482 invoked by uid 1002); 31 May 2003 03:00:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19716 invoked from network); 31 May 2003 03:00:35 -0000 Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 12:00:30 +0900 To: Gentoo Developers Message-ID: <20030531030030.GA8047%chutz@gg3.net> References: <20030530151704.GA14724@kc5eiv.homeip.net> <1054308441.20338.24.camel@orange-pc.ces.clemson.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1054308441.20338.24.camel@orange-pc.ces.clemson.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i-ja.1 From: Georgi Georgiev Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.74 (Citation) X-Primary-Address: chutz@gg3.net Reply-To: Georgi Georgiev Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question X-Archives-Salt: 1f4a1d98-cc83-48e8-b6f1-4823389ed6e0 X-Archives-Hash: ad836e5118650be5822916fc970afca9 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. -- /^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\ / Georgi Georgiev (-< / Computer programmers do it byte \ \ chutz@chubaka.net /\ .o)\ by byte. / / +81(90)6266-1163 V_/_ |(/)/ \ \___________________________/\__________________________________/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list