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On 12/13/2009 04:28 PM, Jonathan Callen wrote: |
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> Recently a change was made to cmake-utils.eclass, changing the |
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> mycmakeargs parameter from a flat string to an array. This change was |
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> also made to kde4-{base,meta}.eclass. The primary reason for this |
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> change was to allow parameters passed to cmake to contain spaces (such |
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> as "${S}" or "${EPREFIX}"). Currently, there is code in these eclasses |
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> to properly convert a string to an array, keeping the previous behavior. |
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> This code works in almost every case *except* if you want to change |
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> mycmakeargs in src_test and call cmake-utils_src_configure again. The |
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> few instances of this in the tree have been fixed to use arrays, as |
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> should all new ebuilds. |
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> The plan is to eventually remove this backwards-compatibility code, once |
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> all usages in the tree have been converted. |
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The policy has been to not change the API of eclasses because you can |
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have user written ebuilds in overlays expecting certain behavior. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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