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I'm sure people have run into this issue before, somewhere: I'm |
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wondering if there are any recommended ways of handling this. |
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I have some packages which all depend on each other, such that you can't |
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build and install one of them entirely before the other two. The real |
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order is the headers from one package need to be installed, then the |
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libraries from the other two are installed, then finally all the |
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programs are built and installed. |
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I can only come up with two ways to manage this: one is to get the |
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upstream folks to break out their packages differently so that the |
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circular dependency is broken, and I don't think this can be done. |
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The other is to create a single ebuild that installs all three packages |
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at the same time: then I can override the compile and install commands |
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to DTRT in the right order. |
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These seems like an OK solution, until you try to think about how to |
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version this unified ebuild: each of the three packages has a distinct |
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version number. I don't see any way to glom them all together that |
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would actually work in practice. |
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Anyone have any good ideas about how to manage this? |
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Paul D. Smith <psmith@××××××××××××××.com> HASMAT: HA Software Mthds & Tools |
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