kde binary building is not portable :(

[Benjamin Reed]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 07:32, Michael Matz wrote:

> > [... Proposal of am_edit hack to automatize that ...]
> >
> > We've been discussing this on the #kde-devel channel, and it sounds like
> > an am_edit macro that does the above transform is the easiest workaround
> > for this, and it allows for future removal of kdeinit if that is still a
> > goal.
> >
> > Does this make sense?
> 
> Yes.  Actually the NetBSD people tried to repeatedly include the patches
> in KDE CVS, and it's more or less my fault (and that the patches arrived
> usually just before a new release but were for the older one) that they
> aren't.  OTOH am_edit support would be _much_ better and probably happily
> accepted (especially because KDE 3.2 should be out already).  bonus points
> if the patch is against HEAD ;-)

After digging through some more, it seems to me that am_edit doesn't
edit .am files at all, does it?  From what I can tell, it's
post-processing Makefile.in's, in which case it's too late, the libtool
stuff has already done it's magic and exploded the lines into make
stuff.