Re: Override... but not really

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 14:00 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> The offender I'm staring at right now is ppp-2.4.5.
> 
> I'll try to autoconfiscate it (autoconf + obsfucate?) later. 

I wasn't suggesting you should autoconfiscate it.  I was suggesting the
maintainers of the package should.  PPP is a bit of a special case
because it's been around for so long, it's almost "grandfathered".

I suggest you take a look at the PPP makefiles and see if there's not
some simpler way to go than reworking it for autoconf: that seems like a
huge amount of work.  Certainly you shouldn't attempt it, IMO, unless
you feel that the PPP maintainers are willing to adopt those changes.
Maintaining them out of the tree, as patches, will be difficult.

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Paul D. Smith <address@hidden>          Find some GNU make tips at:
 http://www.gnu.org                      http://make.mad-scientist.net
 "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist