On 2008-01-02, Joerg van den Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but such patches to system.mk rapidly go out of sync
> with the actual state of  affairs,  i.e.  they  are  version
> dependent, obviously. so, if they really make sense (to you,
> that is), why not inlcude them  (even  "post-release"  time)
> with  sensible  names  in the tarball together with a README
> addendum? 

You stated the reason yourself. I will not include things in
Ion that I can not or am not willing to maintain. The scripts
repository as a "poor man's wiki" is a much better place.

> what is DIST:? 

That's just stuff in the source repository. The release scripts
replace the following line with the DIST-line for release.

> --add two lines:
> #under Mac OS X (using macports) you'll need
> LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib $(LIBS) $(EXTRA_LIBS)

As started earlier in the file, changing LDFLAGS etc. should not
be needed with GCC. -L option should go in the _LIBS option for
the library that needs it.

-- 
Tuomo

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