Re: [gentoo-embedded] Is a compilation depend on the running kernel?

[Peter Stuge]

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Little example, where I'm working on right now: coreutils and gnulib.
> Imagine, these jerks not just collected hundreds of (sometimes really
> broken) tests and workarounds instead of fixing the source - they
> also collected them in another "package" called gnulib, which gets
> fetched via git (from the current head instead of some release tag!)
> and _copied_ into the coreutils source tree by some obscure
> "bootstrap" script. Wow, self-modifying code.

I agree that this is a deficiency, and that there should instead be
an explicit dependency on what is effectively an external package.

But usually this is easy to fix in an ebuild.


//Peter