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On Apr 7, 2005, at 7:04 AM, Brian Harring wrote:
[1] Yes, exceptions occur. Replacing sed (which works in the context of the osx os) because we label it as deficient doesn't qualify, nor despite my hatred of it, does replacing libtoolize with a gnu equiv that sucks substantially less qualify.
In the cases where a particular tool is truly inadequate our precedence has been to install a second version of the tool under a prefixed name (as with sed). In terms of libtoolize, Apple provides "glibtoolize" which AFAIK is the gnu equivalent. As far as I've seen it "sucks less" enough to be workable.
The point is that in cases where tools just won't work for our purposes there are workarounds that do not involve overwriting the native tools that are expected by the system to be there.
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