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From: Andrew Sackville-West on 7 May 2010 11:30
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 05:39:52PM +0800, jidanni(a)jidanni.org wrote:
> >>>>> "SJ" == Sven Joachim <svenjoac(a)gmx.de> writes:
>
> SJ> Yes, actually you can do it at build time by using the configure option
> SJ> --program-transform-name. Say you want grub to be named grub2 to
> SJ> distinguish it from grub-legacy, then you can run
>
> SJ> $ ./configure --program-transform-name=s/grub/grub2/
>
> SJ> and 00_header will have the transform line look like this
>
> SJ> transform="s/grub/grub2/"
>
> SJ> This somewhat obscure feature is not used in the Debian package,
> SJ> hence the no-ops.
>
> Hmmm, then there is a bug in whatever preprocessor package they are
> using, that leaves such confusing no-ops when in fact nothing should be
> left at all perhaps...

ISTM that is much easier and more reliable to change one variable at
the beginning of the file than to change all the sed expressions
throughout the file...

.02

A
From: jidanni on 7 May 2010 19:30
>>>>> "AS" == Andrew Sackville-West <andrew(a)swclan.homelinux.org> writes:

AS> ISTM that is much easier and more reliable to change one variable at
AS> the beginning of the file than to change all the sed expressions
AS> throughout the file...

OK, but whatever they do, they should remember that it looks like
Welcome to Windows<del>7</del>7!
to the <del>customer</del> user, who is left scratching his head.
I would be happy with even a "#trust us" comment added at that point.


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