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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: autotools-utils.eclass
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:02:33
Message-Id: 4C418E05.4070308@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: autotools-utils.eclass by Maciej Mrozowski
1 On 07/17/2010 01:53 PM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
2 > After gathering some feedback, after addressing reported issues, now I feel
3 > it's ready for public consumption. especially when static-libs is being used
4 > more and more often. It's purpose is to become standard eclass for autotools
5 > build systems.
6 >
7 > Brief description:
8 > autotools-utils.eclass is autotools.eclass (so libtool.eclass) and base.eclass
9 > (so eutils.eclass) wrapper providing all inherited features (it is guaranteed,
10 > no need to additionally inherit any of those) along with econf arguments as
11 > Bash array, out of source build with overridable build dir location, static
12 > archives handling, libtool files removal, enable/disable debug handling. It's
13 > modelled after cmake-utils and resembles it in many aspects for consistency.
14 >
15
16 Maybe choose some other name. For me -utils in an eclass name means a
17 set of helper functions. I would name it so the name reflects that it's
18 meant to be used as the main build system provider.
19
20 Regards,
21 Petteri

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