On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:00:12 -0500 Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| Beyond that, there is the shebang issue which can be addresses via a 
| combination of automated scans/fixes, and fixing bugs as it's hit.  
| Hardcoded vars in scripts for the path to a binary are an issue also, 
| although again, scans can be done to at least check for it.

This one's a far bigger issue than might be initially obvious. It would
involve rewriting a whole load of autotools innards...

| Leaves mangling the build process so that the build framework of the 
| package uses the prefix offset files, rather then / .  For c/c++ 
| source, usual trick from fink afaik involves a mangling of cflags
| with -I tacked in.  Kinda ugly, although I'd expect there is a better 
| route.

Again, autoconf tinkering.

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