mxcl/homebrew — Issue #8851: Allow more string replacement in DATA patches
Author: jacknagel
Created: 2011-11-28 23:34:06+00:00
State: open
Labels: feature-suggestion

Currently we can use `HOMEBREW_PREFIX` inside of DATA patches.

We should consider adding things along the line of `HOMEBREW_FORMULA_BIN`, `HOMEBREW_FORMULA_LIB`, etc. This is much more flexible than inreplace, and has the added benefit of halting the install when the patch fails to apply.