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revision 1.120 by akim, Thu Apr 4 15:33:00 2002 UTC revision 1.121 by akim, Thu Apr 4 15:40:01 2002 UTC
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61    
62  * Later  * Later
63    
64    ** config.site
65    This guy is really a problem.  It's contents should be read before
66    handling the options, so that the latter properly override the latter,
67    but most people would want a means to have a config.site that depends
68    on $prefix for instance.
69    
70    Some other would like config.site to be looked for in the current
71    directory.
72    
73    Harlan:
74    
75       I'll go further.
76    
77       I'd like to see several layers of config.site available.
78    
79       I'm starting to use "modules" at more places to handle software
80       installation, and it would be helpful to set general things like:
81    
82            prefix=/opt/pkg/@PACKAGE@/@VERSION@
83    
84       once at a global level, and then, for example, have things like:
85    
86            --with-etcdir=$prefix/etc
87    
88       stuffed "above" the various versions of SSH so I wouldn't have to hunt for
89       these things every time it was time to recompile a new version of a
90       previously installed package.
91    
92       Something like:
93    
94         src/config.site            Global stuff
95         ...
96         src/ssh/config.site                package-specific stuff
97         src/ssh/ssh-1.2.27/                the actual source code
98    
99       I'd like to see automake/autoconf better support packaging tools (like
100       modules, the *BSD ports/ stuff, and others would like hooks for RPMs).
101    
102    
103  ** Languages  ** Languages
104  Integrate other Fortrans etc.  Integrate other Fortrans etc.
105    

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