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From: Thomas Kahle <tom111@×××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild Writing
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:19:56
Message-Id: 4795C372.2030801@gmx.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild Writing by Thomas Kahle
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4 Hi again
5 Thanks for your comments, I will try dev-help next time.
6 I will submit (fully automated version) to bugzilla tonight if it works
7 on all the machines i find here...
8
9 - -tom
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11 Thomas Kahle wrote:
12 > Hi all,
13 >
14 > i'm not sure if this is the right place for my question, if not, please
15 > tell me the right one.
16 >
17 > I'm trying to write an ebuild for a math software called polymake. It
18 > uses a non-autotools, makefile and perl based configuration mechanism.
19 > This thing will ask questions to the user during the make process.
20 > These questions can be answered using the information from make.conf, so
21 > it should be automated?
22 > Now my question is: How to do it in a clean way?
23 > a) Patch the makefile?
24 > b) Use a tool like "expect" to answer the questions?
25 >
26 > Attached you find my first try (which just asks the questions during merge).
27 >
28 > Thanks already, any comment is appreciated.
29 >
30 > Thomas
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