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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add mcrypt
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 10:53:52 +0200
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To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:40:31AM -0500, Eric Bavier wrote:
> +    (native-inputs `(("file" ,file)))
> +    (arguments
> +     `(#:phases (alist-cons-before
> +                 'configure 'patch-configure
> +                 (lambda _
> +                   (substitute* "configure"
> +                     (("/usr/bin/file")
> +                      (which "file"))))
> +                 %standard-phases)))

Is this really needed? Lots of packages using the autotools look for "file",
and when it is not available, nothing bad seems to happen. I was told before
to just not bother.

Andreas