Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild for doxygen

[Ben Lutgens]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:57:33AM -0400, Sean Mitchell wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ben Lutgens [mailto:blutgens@×××××××.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 4:36 PM
>> To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild for doxygen
>
>> YOu need to read the Makefile. Look in the install: target for the
>> possibility of using DESTDIR or prefix. The idea is you wanna tell the
>> makefile that the destination dir is ${D}  this will cause
>> everything to
>> be initally installed by make into /tmp/portage/$PN/image,
>> where it can
>> then be packaged up and then properly "merged" into the system.
>>
>> Overall I think your ebuild look o.k. (I confess I didn't test it) but
>> the bottom line is that you _have_ to install to ${D} or else
>> there's no
>> hope of "unmerge"ing the stuff later.
>
>My thanks to you and Dan for helping me out here. I've attached the updated
>ebuild which now uses QT if defined as a USE and properly installs and
>uninstalls.

K, I'll look it over. I tinkered with it yesterday but gave up. What an
ugly build tree that package is. 

>> Please see "man 5 ebuild" as it contains a veritable wealth of
>> information.
>
>And so it does. You'd think after a year of OpenBSD I'd have checked "man 5"
>and not just "man".

Hehe.

>
>Cheers,
>
>Sean
>
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