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From: Thomas Kahle <tom111@...>
Subject: Re: Ebuild Writing
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:20:34 +0100
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Hi again
Thanks for your comments, I will try dev-help next time.
I will submit (fully automated version) to bugzilla tonight if it works
on all the machines i find here...

- -tom

Thomas Kahle wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i'm not sure if this is the right place for my question, if not, please
> tell me the right one.
> 
> I'm trying to write an ebuild for a math software called polymake. It
> uses a non-autotools, makefile and perl based configuration mechanism.
> This thing will ask questions to the user during the make process.
> These questions can be answered using the information from make.conf, so
> it should be automated?
> Now my question is: How to do it in a clean way?
> a) Patch the makefile?
> b) Use a tool like "expect" to answer the questions?
> 
> Attached you find my first try (which just asks the questions during merge).
> 
> Thanks already, any comment is appreciated.
> 
> Thomas
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