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From: Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] eprefix with helpers ?
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:22:14
Message-Id: a1be7e0e0711202022q5915d282qe4311488b6755b8e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] eprefix with helpers ? by matt hull
1 I did some experimenting with a different package before, and was
2 completely surprised when that message came up. It looks as if you
3 must completely ignore the prefix for doins and other automated
4 functions inside the ebuild, which is reasonable when you want cross
5 compatibility with other EAPI's.
6
7 Have you taken EPREFIX out of all the paths that are being given to
8 doins and insinto.
9
10 Peter
11
12 On 21/11/2007, matt hull <mattmatteh@×××.com> wrote:
13 > i have looked at the doins function. the path that i would install
14 > seems ok.
15 >
16 > i am not sure how to get around this. is doins broke, not prefix
17 > ready, or deprecated ?
18 >
19 > thanks
20 >
21 > matt
22 >
23 > On Nov 20, 2007, at 1:43 AM, Elias Pipping wrote:
24 >
25 > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:44:42AM -0600, matt hull wrote:
26 > >> i have been testing some games with prefix on ppc mac and several
27 > >> fail with
28 > >> an error like this :
29 > >>
30 > >> -------------------------------------------------------
31 > >> You should not use ${EPREFIX} with helpers.
32 > >> --> /Users/matt/gentoo/some/path/
33 > >> -------------------------------------------------------
34 > >>
35 > >> what is this from and what can i do to fix it ? i have searched the
36 > >> eclasses before but do not recall finding anything.
37 > >
38 > > The error stems from doins.
39 > >
40 > >
41 > > -- Elias
42 >
43 > --
44 > gentoo-alt@g.o mailing list
45 >
46 >
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Re: [gentoo-alt] eprefix with helpers ? Elias Pipping <pipping@g.o>