I just want to push buttons and see things happen. On Jul 22, 2014 5:28 AM, "James Leone" <linuxcpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Chicken...egg. > > So today I was compiling Lynx. Not too fancy but...whatever. > > Ran into an error said it couldn't find "-lm". > > Ok this is the libtool thing that has the lib math whatzit in it. > > Then I saw this email... > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2014/06/08/msg019818.html > > So i just put this whozit in the mk.conf > Whatcha-ma-call-it: > > BUILDLINK_TRANSFORM+= rm:-lm > > And then I span the compile wheel and crossed my fingers. > > And it compiled Lynx. > > It felt like a miracle. > > > Is there a way to eliminate the need for patches by enhancing the way > > configure behaves so that it knows what function calls to substitute in > > when configure runs? >