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From: Kumba <kumba@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] src_configure
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 03:10:36
Message-Id: 42CC9D62.9020005@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] src_configure by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 >
3 > That will be very very interesting but... but not everything uses ./configure,
4 > so we should add a bunch of dummy src_configure, and a call to econf || die
5 > "" for those packages not fixed to use that will return a bunch of erroneous
6 > packages not compiling.
7
8 I know some packages off the top of my head, like Perl and OpenSSL use their own
9 odd variants of configure. There are likely many others.
10
11 Kernel ebuilds probably need special treatment, as they don't really go through
12 a configure and compile phase.
13
14
15 --Kumba
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