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I have a ebuild script question. I'm working on adding Qt 3 to nethack. I |
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think I saw a post at one point that someone else was doing this as well. |
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Either way I'm going to do this as an educational experance. When I have it |
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clean I will track down the other person working on it and see if they want |
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what I have done. If not I will just calk it up to experance. I picked this |
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one becase it has some uniqe issues and I thought if I could get this one |
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right then the experance will help latter on. |
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Now to the question. |
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Nethack is uniqe in that it can be compiled many differant ways |
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1) Console - This is currently the only option |
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2) Qt 3 or 2 - I have this one pretty much done using Qt 3. |
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3) X11 |
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4) KDE |
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5) Gnome |
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The problem with this is that what it looks to be doing is compiling in |
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support for Console and one widget set into one executable. And I can't seem |
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to beable to get all 5 options to work at one time witch I kinda figured it |
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wouldn't. So lets say the user has this in his/her USE statment: |
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USE="qt x11 kde gnome" |
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How would I go about handling the compile? |
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Should I compile all 4 of them? Yes doing this would take some bash magic but |
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not too much. If I should do all four of them what naming convention should I |
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use for the differant executables? Some thing like nethackQt nethackGnome? |
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Should I just pick one of them and compile that one? What if I pick the one |
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the user doesn't want? |
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Should I force some user interaction with the build process? Other words ask |
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them which one they want? I don't really like this option myself. |
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And now even more questions. |
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On instalation of the above should I create menu items in KDE and GNOME if the |
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user has them? And a side question to that is it seems that KDE does not |
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automaticly include the GNOME apps but GNOME does automaticly include he KDE |
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apps so if I'm doing a KDE build should I add it to the GNOME menu if they |
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have it. And the reverse if I'm doing a GNOME build should I add that to the |
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KDE menus? |
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Any thoughts on the above would be helpfull. |
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Thanks |
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Richard Jackson |
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