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-$NetBSD: README,v 1.2 2002/08/22 08:21:28 jlam Exp $
+$NetBSD: README,v 1.3 2002/09/23 01:11:39 jlam Exp $
0 buildlink2 Wrapper Script System
==================================
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ compiler tool with scripts that tranlate any arguments into their buildlink
equivalents, then invoke the actual compiler tools with the translated
arguments. The pkgsrc/mk/buildlink2 directory contains bits of the wrapper
script system for the buildlink2 framework. The wrapper script system is
-composed of three parts: the main wrapper script, the "cache", and the
-"logic" script generated from the cache.
+composed of four parts: the main wrapper script, the "cache", the "logic"
+script generated from the cache, and a wrapper-specific "logic" script.
0.1 Main wrapper script
=======================
@@ -36,3 +36,10 @@ described above. The pre- and post-cache files simply complete the "case"
statement. The post-cache also contains the final case that performs the
actual argument translation and, as an optimization, saves the result into
the cache.
+
+ 0.4 Wrapper-specifc logic script
+ ================================
+
+The wrapper-specific logic script contains extra shell commands that
+typically perform an extra uncached translation of an argument after the
+main translation has been performed by the logic script.