Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem

[Michael Haubenwallner]

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 14:59 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > This is meant for packages needing the perl-library only - preferrably
> > shared (from sys-devel/libperl), or static (from dev-lang/perl) on MiNT.
>
> Do those exist? That is the most imporant here.

Didn't actually search that, but why else did this thread get to this
libperl dependency problem?

One of us is puzzled:

What I want to suggest:

For sys-devel/libperl:
      * provides the perl-library (shared only)
      * is p.masked in m68k-mint profile
      * does not need the m68k-mint keyword

For dev-lang/perl:
      * is expected to provide the perl-library somehow, by doing:
      * !m68k-mint?: depend on sys-devel/libperl
      * m68k-mint?: install /usr/lib/libperl.a

For any package requiring the perl-library:
      * does need to know sys-devel/libperl might be unavailable
      * so depend on: || ( sys-devel/libperl dev-lang/perl )
      * does *not* need to know about m68k-mint
      * IMO the more generic way

>    Because then you need
> something like:
> || ( sys-devel/libperl m68k-mint? ( dev-lang/perl ) )
> probably better:
> !m68k-mint? ( sys-devel/libperl )
> m68k-mint? ( dev-lang/perl)

How I understand yours:

For sys-devel/libperl:
      * provides the perl-library (shared only)
      * is p.masked in m68k-mint profile
      * does not need the m68k-mint keyword

For dev-lang/perl:
      * !m68k-mint?: is not expected to provide the perl-library
      * m68k-mint: install /usr/lib/libperl.a

For any package requiring the perl-library:
      * does need to know that sys-devel/libperl is unavailable on
        m68k-mint
      * !m68k-mint?: depend on sys-devel/libperl
      * m68k-mint?: depend on dev-lang/perl
      * IMO the less generic way

/haubi/
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Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level