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[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 09:31:50PM +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
>On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 22:22 +0100, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>> I'd go for plain
>> sed -i -e 's:${STAGING_LIBDIR}::g' -e 's:${STAGING_INCDIR}::g' $i
>> 
>> to avoid massaging  -rpath / -Y / --library-path et al later on.
>
>Does that actually work?  I would have thought it would leave you with a
>load of surplus "-L" and "-I" options with missing arguments.

It wouldn't, you're right.
So either come up with a stanza that lists all path-touching tokens
explicitly or write a sed/awk script that does that -- i'd be surprised
if nobody wrote something like that yet since that's a pretty common
thing to do.