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On 09/22/2012 09:48 AM, Ambroz Bizjak wrote: |
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> Zac, I think you misunderstood me here. Crosscompile-only HDEPEND is |
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> definitely necessary, I've seen many packages need this. But what I'm |
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> suggesting is that we also, and maybe only, need "ROOT != /" - only |
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> HDEPEND dependencies. This means that the dependency would only be |
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> required if the package is being built for a ROOT that is not /. The |
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> idea is to eliminate the strange case that is ROOT!=/ but FEATURES has |
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> no crosscompile. If the package requires tools that it would build |
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> itself if ROOT was /, it will use the host's version of the tool |
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> whenever ROOT!=/ It wouldn't have to worry about whether the tools it |
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> builds link to libraries in ROOT. |
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> |
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> So my proposal is basically, instead of: |
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> HDEPEND="crosscompile? ( ~${CATEGORY}/${P} ) (yes, that seems to be |
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> the most common case) |
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> there would also, and maybe only, be: |
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> HDEPEND="root_not_slash? ( ~${CATEGORY}/${P} )" |
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> root_not_slash (or another name) would essentially be a superset of |
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> crosscompile, since crosscompile implies ROOT!=/. |
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Maybe call it "sysroot" instead of root_not_slash, since gcc and other |
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tools seem to refer to it as sysroot. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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