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Bug 298608 - Paragraph on overriding configure scripts is vague and needs to be expanded.
Summary: Paragraph on overriding configure scripts is vague and needs to be expanded.
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Project-specific documentation (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Embedded Gentoo Team
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/em...
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Reported: 2009-12-28 02:11 UTC by Tom Noonan
Modified: 2009-12-29 07:33 UTC (History)
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Description Tom Noonan 2009-12-28 02:11:48 UTC
The instruction "From time to time you may find you need to add additional variables to these files in /usr/share/crossdev/include/site/ to get a package to compile. To figure out the variable you need to add, it's often as simple as greping the configure script for the autoconf variable and adding it to the appropriate target file. This becomes obvious after the first few times of doing it." does not give any specific instructions and is unhelpful to a new crossdev user.  What is the format for target file naming?  How do you know which autoconf variable to set?  How do you know what to set it to?  This section needs to be expanded, please.

Reproducible: Always