On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:24 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> Seems as though AIX & FreeMiNT bump into this issue in a few ebuilds.
> 
> I've just bumped into it again with sys-libs/cracklib &
> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs and sys-fs/e2fsprogs.
> 
> Is it worthwhile creating a new function in the eclass directory that
> deals with these issues..
> 
> Taking sys-libs/cracklib for example, we currently have this....
> 
>         # move shared libs to /
>         dodir /$(get_libdir)
>         mv "${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/*.so* "${D}"/$(get_libdir)/ || die
> "could
> not move shared"
> 
> We could add (or something equivalent to with a bit of extra
> thinking)....
> 
> move_shlibs() {
>         # move shared libs to /
>         [[ $(get_libname) == ".irrelevant" ]] && return
>         dodir /$(get_libdir)
>         mv "${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/*.so* "${D}"/$(get_libdir)/ || die
> "could
> not move shared"
> }
> 
> and nicely change the ebuild to...
> 
>         move_shlibs
> 
> It'd really help clean up that nasty "mv" commandline I keep seeing
> everywhere in ebuilds.
> 
> Comments ?

Prefix guru's - would this be acceptable to add in the eclass ??

Alan.