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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:25:59
Message-Id: 1125152680.10188.27.camel@lycan.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 14:00 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 > I was wondering last night with az about the handling of autotools.
3 > They not always require to be re-run by scratch, but when you have to run
4 > aclocal you usually have to run everything after that.
5 > Every ebuild handles them in a different way, some ebuilds run them in a &&
6 > list and then || die, others runs them one-by-one.
7 > Some force updating of support files and some don't.
8 > Some adds code to let them print the status to the screen, some hides the
9 > actual output and some don't.
10 >
11
12 I still think a autoreconf is usually enough, except for cases where
13 that do not work, and then something like this will not work anyhow.
14
15 Anyhow, if you insist, then rather something like attached.
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17 PS: elibtoolize is a problem as it might collide with the one from
18 libtool.eclass
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21 --
22 Martin Schlemmer

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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@g.o>