Base Enhancements

[Chris Pickel]

On 17 Jul, 2007, at 14:35, Landon Fuller wrote:
> On Jul 16, 2007, at 20:03, Chris Pickel wrote:
>> 12309 [1] - Currently we use sed to do some replacement in port,  
>> portindex, and portmirror. I think autoconf is better suited to this.
>
> Using make for this purpose ensures that the scripts are re-built  
> when their source is updated. See:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_mono/ 
> autoconf.html#SEC24

Right, makes perfect sense. I'll mark this bug as 'wontfix' and close  
it.

>> 12310 [2] - Right now we detect some libraries (curl, readline,  
>> etc.) and then we link them all into every dylib we compile. This  
>> patch slims it down so that decisions can be made separately for  
>> each dylib.
>
> Looks good to me, although CFLAGS should probably be broken out too

Will do.

>> 12312 [4] - Several manpages reference paths according to  
>> variables, rather than giving the actual path; we can do the  
>> latter and that's more helpful to users.
>
> Sweet, although I think this should still be done with Makefile  
> substitution, as per above =)

Alright. That should be workable and not too difficult, provided no  
one decides to put crazy commas in their autoconf variables.


Chris
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