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Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:56:57AM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> > In situations where we modify aclocal or configure.in, i think it is better |
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> > to run autoconf/... and add a patch for all modified files instead of running |
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> > autoconf from the ebuild. This simplifies package dependencies and makes it |
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> > possible to build all packages without autoconf/automake/m4/perl installed. |
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> I don't think that this really matters for packages like GNOME (after all, if |
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> you're installing GNOME then you probably also have autoconf/Perl,etc. |
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> installed :), but this technique would be useful for critical system packages, |
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> like those found in sys-*. |
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I had the following problem with glibc-2.2.2. Their configure file was |
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not designed well and some |
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tests failed on a system without perl (build). I liked petes suggestion |
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to modify the root and not the leaf |
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of the configuration, so I patched configure.in. |
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So now I had to compile autoconf/m4/perl/libtool before I could build |
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glibc (very bad). |
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I think it is generally a good idea to add configure to the patch, |
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because it is a bit confusing that |
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the configure in work exists but does not work. So eigther it must be |
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removed if configure.in gets modified |
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or added to the patch. |
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However, "emerge" should be able to sort out the |
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> build/runtime deps perfectly in either case -- as long as the DEPEND and |
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> RDEPEND strings are set correctly. |
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Yes that's true. But in the above example it is a problem. |
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> Though I'll agree, it would be nice to have a Perl-free system (drobbins hides) |
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Unfortunately xfree requires perl, so it whould be a xfree free system |
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too. |
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BTW: It whould be nice to have a python free runtime system too |
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(nothing personal this time, so no need to run or hide :-)). |
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This is impossible at the moment because of the env-update thing. It |
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might be required on embedded platforms where disc space is rare |
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(spython ~5MB). |
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I suggest recode env-update in bash or c. |
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achim~ |
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> Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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