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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
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 12:58:26
Message-Id: 20090423135817.375054d7@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ECONF-OPTIONS (Was: PMS EAPI 3 more or less ready) by Mart Raudsepp
1 On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:56:56 +0300
2 Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote:
3 > > If a parallel install is overwriting things on / whilst a package is
4 > > compiling, things are already horribly broken regardless of this
5 > > switch. PMS explicitly forbids that from happening.
6 >
7 > That's that. And then there's the real world.
8
9 Yes, and in the real world, if you change / whilst something is
10 compiling, things break.
11
12 > > > Olivier Crête also has an outstanding comment about a maintainer
13 > > > possibly not wanting that disabled in case of patches applied.
14 > > > Could use some elaboration on that thought, or comments in
15 > > > replies.
16 >
17 > > It's always possible to override it if necessary.
18 >
19 > No. It is possible to not use econf and write all of the options it's
20 > supposed to be passing manually. Probably missing something or
21 > otherwise being horribly long.
22
23 Uh, you just do econf --enable-dependency-tracking.
24
25 --
26 Ciaran McCreesh

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