[gentoo-dev] Re: My first ebuild: GNU Hello

[Marco Maggesi]

[...]
> SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.1.1.tar.gz"
>
> use
> SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
> instead, as its less intense on maintainance (no need to update inside
> the ebuild for a simple bump)

Ok!


> KEYWORDS="x86 ~alpha ~ppc ~mips ~hppa ~sparc arm"
>
> Is that really right? has it had testing by developer on all the
> ~<arch>?
> has it really been in the tree for long enough to be deemed a stable
> ebuild on both x86 and arm?

The missing tilde before arm is a plain error.

I tested on x86.  I do not have the opportunity to test the ebuild on
the other architectures.  I tried to merge, unmerge and I run the
program to test that it actually works.

I did not find in the documentation the list of supported
architectures.  As far as I can guess I suppose it will work.  It is
not enough to prepend the names with tilde?


> Don't emake  and econf both fail if they fail, making || die ""
> unnecessary and even impossible?

Sorry, I do not understand your question.  I think 'die' is also to
give a better error reporting here.  Anyway my src_compile() follows
the example in 'man 5 ebuild'.


> There's no ChangeLog in the directory.

Ah!  I will add one.


>> I have a question, also: how can I figure out the good values for
>> DEPEND and RDEPEND?  (Without reading all the sources, of course).
>
> configure.in is usually a good source.
>
> README too.
>
> And unpacking an empty stage3 and testing in works

>
>
> //Spider

Ok, thank you for your time.

  -- Marco


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