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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] check-reqs conditionals
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:45:02
Message-Id: 20060211224220.6cfdf652@snowdrop.home
1 For those of you who don't know, check-reqs is an eclass that is
2 occasionally used by a few packages that have ludicrously high build
3 requirements. Typical examples have included anything using Haskell (the
4 programming language with built-in memory leaks!) and certain C++
5 template metaprogamming voodoo.
6
7 Currently it just exports a single function that will warn (or die,
8 based upon user preference) if the build requirements aren't met. There
9 has been a request for a clean way of handling packages that can be
10 built in two different ways that give the same end result (typical
11 example is use of a really slow but low memory requiring algorithm vs a
12 fast but memory intensive algorithm when building data tables).
13
14 How does something like the attached look? (Yes, it's using old-school
15 [ rather than [[, since the rest of the eclass is written that way. I
16 might switch the whole thing over at some point.)
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat)
20 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
21 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] check-reqs conditionals Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@g.o>