[Box Backup-dev] Makefile.extra?

[Ben Summers]

On 26 Feb 2006, at 12:39, Martin Ebourne wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 12:14 +0000, James O'Gorman wrote:
>> To make sure the path to perl is right though, should I move
>> makebuildenv.pl to makebuildenv.pl.in, set the first line to #! 
>> @PERL@,
>> and then set something like: my $perl_executable = @PERL@; ?
>
> Sounds like a reasonable plan. I have to say that I don't see why Ben
> prefers having a perl script that modifies all the files compared to
> autoconf doing it. Am I missing something?

Er, actually probably not.

Developers will have to make sure they edit the right perl script,  
and run ./configure afterwards, I suppose.

Ben