[gentoo-dev] [RFC] simple-build eclass

I've already written about the possibility of creating an ebuild to
simply _replace_ the entire buildsystem of a package if it's
non-existant (simple .c file thrown around by upstream), too minimal
and/or impossible to get upstream do adapt, or as a temporary measure
until upstream is beaten into common sense.

The whole story can be found at
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/10/15/fixing-cflags-ldflags-handling-with-a-single-boilerplate-makefile

I'm attaching a proof of concept of the eclass, it's certainly not ready
for prime time: it does not support C++ programs, it does not have
pkg-config support, and so on. But in general it should work, I'm also
attaching a reworked ebuild for uif2iso (package I maintain and for
which I had to _rewrite_ the whole Makefile already).

This gets especially interesting to consider if we want to enable
--as-needed by default, since this will allow easy fix for packages that
don't otherwise build with --as-needed, like habak that I had to fix,
and takes care of quite a few different problems at once.

HTH,