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From: Tod M Neidt <tod@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:39:17
Message-Id: 1013057019.5392.9.camel@Q.neidt.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question by Edward Muller
1 On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 21:44, Edward Muller wrote:
2 > I need to build new oaf, ORBIT & bonobo ebuilds for the current builds.
3 > I was looking at the current ORBit-0.5.13 ebuild and found the
4 > followings types of lines:
5 >
6 > ...
7 > docinto idl
8 > ...
9 >
10 > What is docinto. I can't seem to find the script in /usr/lib/portage/bin
11 > and a look at the developer docs on the website didn't mention docinto.
12 > Is it an old script? Is it undocumented (and if, so why and where is it
13 > kept?) Or did I miss something?
14 >
15 Hi!
16
17 docinto is an internal function of /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh
18
19 If you run across a something lke that in an ebuild that isn't in
20 /usr/lib/portage/bin in can often be found in /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh
21
22 Hope that helps,
23
24 tod