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Bug#221528: make apt package cross compile friendly



On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:43:25PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:40:17AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:23:56AM +0100, Oliver Kurth wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:27:44PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > > > Please send a unified diff (diff -u).
> > > >
> > > > Okay. Attached.
> > >
> > > Thanks, this will go in a future version.
> > 
> > Er, I hope it doesn't.
> > 
> > I have no idea what you are trying to do with this patch.  Wrapping it in a
> > cache val doesn't solve anything.
> 
> It does; it lets you easily override it with a user-supplied value without
> modifying the package.

Exactly.

Actually, using cached vals is often the only way to cross compile autoconf'ed
packages.

Greetings,
Oliver

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