Re: [gentoo-dev] link or patch?

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 21:22, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> > Some packages look for files in the wrong place, e.g. /usr/include/libxml
> > for files which gentoo puts in /usr/include/libxml2/libxml, and don't
> > have configure options to specify the correct path.  One can fix this
> > either by patching Makefiles or by creating symlinks.  I normally do
> > the latter.  My question is: What should one do in an ebuild?  Does
> > gentoo have a policy about how to fix these packages?
>
> In general we prefer to patch the Makefiles (or add the correct flag
> to ./configure).
>

You can also do something like:

src_compile(){

	CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -I/usr/include/libxml2"

	./configure ......

}


Greetings,

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa