Duncan wrote:
> "C. Bergström" <cbergstrom@...> posted
> 48D0177B.2010002@..., excerpted below, on  Tue, 16 Sep 2008
> 22:30:51 +0200:
>
>   
>> 1) Add a symlink in GNU patch ebuild to symlink patch to gpatch
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>
> You mean the other way, right?  gpatch -> patch , since we already have 
> patch, and need gpatch if the below is to work.
>
> Or did you mean change the sys-devel/patch ebuild so the executable is 
> named gpatch instead of patch, then create a symlink patch -> gpatch as 
> suggested above.
>
>   
>> 2) Change references to patch in eclass/eutils.eclass to gpatch
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>
> This makes sense to me.
>
>   
Here's another idea and I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner..  
Instead of any system change to the patch ebuild.. Inside the 
eutils.eclass do a quick check for gpatch and if it exists use that vs 
patch.  I'm trying to think of any circumstances where this would fail..