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Vlastimil Babka wrote: |
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> I wonder if ebuild using those variables would be more typing than |
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> ebuild with own src_compile() :) but not a bad idea anyway. |
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The idea is that you don't end up repeating the same code snippet over |
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and over. Instead, you use some variables to configure what targets get |
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called. This helps with maintainence, as if we change src_compile, you |
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don't have to update it in a trillion places. For example, eant dies by |
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itself on error, but a lot of places do eant || die. If we had a default |
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src_compile, you'd have to fix it in exactly one place. |
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> Yeah check is needed, otherwise you'll be trying to compile current -bin |
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> packages without src_compile() in ebuild... |
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> Not sure if any ebuild would use the variable, but why not... |
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The answer to 'why not' would be added complexity. But some packages |
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would use it, ie, I know some packages have build files at, for example |
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'build/build.xml'. |
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Joshua Nichols |
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