On 2 Jul 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

: The package pretty much insists on hard coding the architecture into
: the build directory, which makes the PLIST non-MI. I tried several
: trivial ways to fix this, and it turns out that the package knows way
: too much way too deeply about the name of said directory -- it is
: hardcoded into a couple of things.
: 
: Any ideas, folks?

Use ${MACHINE_ARCH} (or ${MACHINE_GNU_ARCH}, if using GNU_CONFIGURE) in the
PLIST - it will be translated automatically.

Some existing packages, xemacs and egcs-current come to mind, do this.

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