Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: an eclass for github snapshots?

[Hans de Graaff]

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 20:16 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> Even if it fulfills the restrictions for global variables, it is still
> an abuse of the spec, because PMS defines S as follows:
> "The full path to the temporary build directory, used by src_compile,
> src_install etc."

I don't see how setting S violates this specification. For each ruby
implementation that we build for the definition of S holds. It just has
a different value for each implementation.

> And for EAPI 4 it will fail, because S is required to exist as initial
> working directory in most src_* phase functions.

Correct, so in EAPI 4 we now set the RUBY_S variable to handle the
initial setup, and then we set S as part of the environment setup when
we are iterating through each ruby implementation within each of the PMS
phases.

Kind regards,

Hans