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On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:57:06PM -0600, Joseph Booker wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger said: |
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> > what if he wants to crosscompile |
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> > -mike |
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> ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS |
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> ROOT = [path] |
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> Use ROOT to specify the target root filesystem to be |
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> used for merging packages or ebuilds. Defaults to /. |
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> for merging the packages..........$ROOT sounds like to me (and I havn't |
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> checked) that when an emerge is done, when it 'merges' /..../image with /, |
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> it insteads merges it with $ROOT, for example, if $ROOT was /usr, then all |
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> the files installed in /etc would to got /usr/etc, all in /usr/bin goto |
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> /usr/usr/bin, etc. |
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I have use $ROOT quite extensively. I can vouch for it's working in |
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this fashion, the only time it doesn't produce expected results is |
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specific checks in ebuilds. Some ebuilds will check for a library(in |
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the actual ebuild, not a configure script, ex: perl checks for |
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libperl) and the check will be done on / not $ROOT So if the |
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file/library required exists on $ROOT but not / the build fails. |
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