kde binary building is not portable :(

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Tuesday 26 November 2002 16:20 schrieb 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.

Nothing is too late for am_edit. It just means it will have to do a bit more
work. Alternativly we could dump automake for 3.2 and go for unsermake :)

Greetings, Stephan