On 3/8/07, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> "I. Szczesniak" <iszczesniak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > This is not analogous to rpcgen, this is patching a fairly large 
> > > > component
> > > > into the ON world *at build time*.  Such that we don't actually have the
> > > > sources we build in the tree at all, but instead have the original 
> > > > sources
> > > > and a collection of hard to maintain, impossible to cscope, impossible 
> > > > to
> > > > opengrok patches and scripts to perturb them into buildable form as 
> > > > part of
> > > > the build.
> > >
> > > I am not sure what Roland did with ksh93, I did change my build system 
> > > during
> > > the last 6 months in a way that it now allows to "statically" install the
> > > results of the autoconfiguration process in a way that allows all build 
> > > systems
> > > to use my include files.
> >
> > I think that is the same solution Roland is using. ksh93 is build once
> > outside ON and the results of the autoconfiguration process is
> > imported into ON separated into target-specific sub directories (i386,
> > amd64, sparc, ...).
>
> Then I don't understand why it should be a problem.

What do you mean by problem?

Irek

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