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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Names of Prefix variants
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 07:39:45
Message-Id: 20131026074128.GB66946@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Names of Prefix variants by Ruud Koolen
1 On 26-10-2013 00:54:48 +0200, Ruud Koolen wrote:
2 > During development, we've been using the name "prefix-rpath" for classic,
3 > and "prefix-libc" and "rap" for rap. Of those, I think prefix-rpath is
4 > acceptable, but could be improved; the other two are just bad, as far as I'm
5 > concerned, and should be replaced.
6 >
7 > I propose "prefix-native" for rap as an alternative. Does anyone have any good
8 > ideas for classic prefix?
9
10 As you may or may not know, the prefix USE-flag is a hack that works in
11 Portage, but violates specifications, because it is never defined in
12 ebuilds that need it. Discussions here go back to not wanting to show
13 elibc_XXX, kernel_XXX in IUSE (because user can't influence them) and
14 prefix likewise. We should still solve this problem. While we're at
15 it, I'd like to tackle bug #473598 [1] at the same time.
16
17 Anyway, I was thinking more along the lines of using USE_EXPAND.
18 There's also a USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN, and something like this [2] looks
19 good. In other words, I could think of having EPREFIX="$classic" or
20 EPREFIX_TARGET="$rap", which could default to $classic in
21 base/make.defaults.
22
23 Thoughts?
24
25 Fabian
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28 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473598
29 [2] embedded/make.defaults:USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="USERLAND KERNEL ELIBC CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS ABI_MIPS ABI_X86"
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33 Fabian Groffen
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Re: [gentoo-alt] Names of Prefix variants Ruud Koolen <redlizard@g.o>