Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem with Zangband ebuild

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 06:11, Malte Obbel Forsberg wrote:
> You're probably right, but even though I might not need it - I want it! :-P
> If it's not possible to get the CHOST settings outside the ebuild, then that's not good.
> I think this should be changed, by the very good developers of Gentoo..
>

Afaik, ${CHOST} is used to specify the --build or --host arguments of
./configure, and one or two other non autoconf generated build system
use it.


> Malte
>
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 12:43:22 +0200
> "Defresne Sylvain" <sylvain.defresne@××××.fr> wrote:
>
> > * Malte Obbel Forsberg (door@×××××××××××.nu) wrote:
> > > I'm quite certain it doesn't matter greatly for the Zangband ebuild. Although, it'd be nice to know how to do this, if I would have wanted to make more ebuilds. ;-)
> > > What I need to do, is getting the proper CHOST into the makefile, which seems impossible to me.. This patch won't do it for me:
> > >
> > > -       $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o zangband $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)
> > > +       $(CC) ${CHOST} $(CFLAGS) -o zangband $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)
> > >
> > > Even though one would be inclined to believe the contrary ...
> > > Should the $CHOST be stated in a different way?
> >
> >   I'm not sure, but I think that the ${CHOST} is only used by configure
> > script autogenerated by autoconf. It is not used by gcc. So, if the
> > program don't use configure (and that's the case for Zangband if I remember
> > correctly), you don't need this setting.
> >
> >   Again, I'm not sure. I can be wrong !
> >
> > Bye
> > --
> > Keiichi
> >
>
>
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Martin Schlemmer
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