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?RCS: $Id: Prefixup.U,v 3.0.1.1 1995/01/30 14:30:40 ram Exp $
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?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1993, Raphael Manfredi
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?RCS: $Log: Prefixup.U,v $
?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1  1995/01/30  14:30:40  ram
?RCS: patch49: created
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?X:
?X: Used as: "set dflt; eval $prefixup" to set $dflt to be $prefix/dir
?X: instead of $prefixexp/dir, in case portability was involved somehow
?X: and $prefix uses ~name expansion.
?X:
?MAKE:Prefixup: prefix prefixexp
?MAKE:	-pick add $@ %<
?LINT:define prefixup
?S:prefixup:
?S:	This shell variable is used internally by Configure to reset
?S:	the leading installation prefix correctly when $prefix uses
?S:	~name expansion.
?S:		set dflt
?S:		eval $prefixup
?S:	That will set $dflt to $prefix/dir if it was $prefixexp/dir and
?S:	$prefix differs from $prefixexp.
?S:.
?V:prefixup
: set the prefixup variable, to restore leading tilda escape
prefixup='case "$prefixexp" in
"$prefix") ;;
*) eval "$1=\`echo \$$1 | sed \"s,^$prefixexp,$prefix,\"\`";;
esac'