[Box Backup-dev] Makefile.extra?

[Martin Ebourne]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 12:14 +0000, James O'Gorman wrote:
> I take it you still wouldn't want #define @PERL@ in the .cpp file - 
> which means there'd need to be something in infrastructure/m4? In which 
> case, I think Martin may have to look at that, if possible. I really 
> have no idea what's going on there!

Have a look at BoxConfig.h. Your define is probably already there. If
not, then AC_SUBST it.

> > 2) There are lots of scripts which need parsing. Maybe it would be nicer 
> > to modify makebuildenv.pl to go through and modify the first line of 
> > every perl script?
> 
> This bit is certainly doable. My Perl-foo is at least half-decent! (I hope.)
> 
> To make sure the path to perl is right though, should I move 
> makebuildenv.pl to makebuildenv.pl.in, set the first line to #!@PERL@, 
> and then set something like: my $perl_executable = @PERL@; ?

Sounds like a reasonable plan. I have to say that I don't see why Ben
prefers having a perl script that modifies all the files compared to
autoconf doing it. Am I missing something?

Cheers,

Martin.