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From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of elibtoolize
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:21:54
Message-Id: 20160920162136.34e6d69f@red.yakaraplc.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of elibtoolize by Alexis Ballier
1 On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:13:50 +0200
2 Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:58:32 +0100
5 > James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:15:50 +0200
8 > > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
9 > >
10 > > > That said, I don't find the current solution really optimal. A lot
11 > > > of ebuilds (mine, for example) are not using elibtoolize, and I
12 > > > expect that they may randomly fail for some people in corner
13 > > > cases. But I don't feel like adding another eclass to all ebuilds
14 > > > in the tree is a good idea.
15 > > >
16 > > > Portage already does some configure updates in econf. How about we
17 > > > move the whole thing straight into Portage, implicitly activated
18 > > > by econf? That would certainly increase coverage, remove some QA
19 > > > violations from ECLASSDIR and possibly solve the problem
20 > > > long-term.
21 > > >
22 > > > What do you think?
23 > >
24 > > I support this. I don't know if it's as big a problem as it was
25 > > when I last looked at it but cross-compiling often failed without
26 > > the sysroot patch. Much like you, before becoming a dev, I did not
27 > > want to file a whole string of bug reports requesting that
28 > > elibtoolize be added to loads of ebuilds.
29 > >
30 >
31 >
32 > there is a simple solution to this: profile.bashrc :)
33
34 Indeed, I did some godawful things with bashrc that make my own eyes
35 bleed but I stopped short of adding elibtoolize. It might work but if
36 it would work that reliably, why not make it standard?
37
38 --
39 James Le Cuirot (chewi)
40 Gentoo Linux Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of elibtoolize Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>