Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 5/8]

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Wednesday 14 September 2005 02:36, John Vandenberg wrote:
> As a way to simplify the problem of endless @ signs in the quilt code,
> I would like to propose we add a compat subdirectory to include any
> workaround for specific platforms (e.g getopt.in tac.in, etc...), and
> only install the ones that are necessary for each platform. This
> directory would then be prefixed to the PATH in patchfns.in.  In the
> specific cases in this patch, the directory compat would contain sym
> links to the appropriate GNU version of cp.

This sounds like a really good plan to me. We could even get some of the @ 
macros out of existing code.

-- Andreas.