[Box Backup-dev] Makefile.extra?

[Ben Summers]

On 24 Feb 2006, at 12:35, James O'Gorman wrote:

> I'm updating the FreeBSD port to 0.10, and to use the autoconf magic.
>
> I'm trying to make it PREFIX-clean as much as possible, so I'm  
> patching
> some files that include hard-coded perl paths, or just the word "perl"
> (i.e. changing "/usr/local/bin/perl", "/usr/bin/perl" or "perl" to
> ${PERL}). (If I don't do this, then it could break on the FreeBSD
> package build cluster.)
>
> When doing a 'grep -r "perl " *', I see a lot of Makefile.extras that
> say "perl $(something)" - so:
>
> a) Is Makefile.extra automatically generated? If so, which file  
> should I
> patch to change "perl" to ${PERL}?

No, it's part of the distribution.


> b) If they're not automatically generated, is it safe to just patch  
> all
> these files?

Yes.

What should we do for the next release to tidy this up?

Ben