About patching ports

[Naram Qashat]

Cool, thanks for the quick response.  I really appreciate it. :P

Naram Qashat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger at mac.com>
To: "Naram Qashat" <cyberbotx at cyberbotx.com>
Cc: <ports at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 09:09 PM
Subject: Re: About patching ports


> Naram Qashat wrote:
> > Just a quick question really.  What's the best way to go about handling
> > patching of files that need PREFIX substituted into the file after the
patch
> > has been applied?  Like for example, you replace a path in a source file
> > with %%PREFIX%% and you want that replaced after the patch is done.  I
don't
> > think using SUB_FILES would work in this case.  Any help would be
> > appreciated.
>
> Something like:
>
> USE_REINPLACE=  yes
>
> post-patch:
>          ${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|%%PREFIX%%|${PREFIX}|g ; \
>          s|%%CC%%|${CC}|g ; \
>          s|%%CFLAGS%%|${CFLAGS}|g' ${WRKSRC}/Makefile
>
> See
>
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-patch.html
> for more details...
>
> -- 
> -Chuck
>
>
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