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From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ECONF-OPTIONS (Was: PMS EAPI 3 more or less ready)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:25:28
Message-Id: 1240507514.2635.6.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ECONF-OPTIONS (Was: PMS EAPI 3 more or less ready) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 13:58 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:56:56 +0300
3 > Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote:
4 > > > If a parallel install is overwriting things on / whilst a package is
5 > > > compiling, things are already horribly broken regardless of this
6 > > > switch. PMS explicitly forbids that from happening.
7 > >
8 > > That's that. And then there's the real world.
9 >
10 > Yes, and in the real world, if you change / whilst something is
11 > compiling, things break.
12
13 Except with dependency tracking they might not. Anyways, I was
14 "whatever" on the --disable-dependency-tracking already.
15
16 > > > > Olivier Crête also has an outstanding comment about a maintainer
17 > > > > possibly not wanting that disabled in case of patches applied.
18 > > > > Could use some elaboration on that thought, or comments in
19 > > > > replies.
20 > >
21 > > > It's always possible to override it if necessary.
22 > >
23 > > No. It is possible to not use econf and write all of the options it's
24 > > supposed to be passing manually. Probably missing something or
25 > > otherwise being horribly long.
26 >
27 > Uh, you just do econf --enable-dependency-tracking.
28
29 I apparently did need that nap. Yeah, that should work.
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32 I believe you forgot the topic of --enable-fast-install.
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35 --
36 Mart Raudsepp
37 Gentoo Developer
38 Mail: leio@g.o
39 Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio

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