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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, dotnet@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mono-env.eclass: new eclass to be used by most of dotnet packages
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:25:35
Message-Id: 1365935127.6940.17.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] mono-env.eclass: new eclass to be used by most of dotnet packages by "Michał Górny"
1 El dom, 14-04-2013 a las 12:08 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
2 > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:59:14 +0200
3 > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > El dom, 14-04-2013 a las 11:45 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
6 > > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:40:03 +0200
7 > > > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
8 > > >
9 > > > > # >=mono-0.92 versions using mcs -pkg:foo-sharp require shared memory, so we set the
10 > > > > # shared dir to ${T} so that ${T}/.wapi can be used during the install process.
11 > > > > export MONO_SHARED_DIR="${T}"
12 > > >
13 > > > Don't use ${T} in global scope. And just don't export them
14 > > > in the global scope either.
15 > >
16 > > Why not?
17 >
18 > Let's start with the fact that ${T} is only partially persistent
19 > by the words of PMS. I don't know if it's really relevant here but
20 > you're exporting persistent variables with value based on
21 > an non-persistent one.
22 >
23 > Thinking about it more, it probably would work. As long as you don't
24 > assume anything about those directories on pkg_*rm() where ${T} would
25 > have changed already and your variables wouldn't.
26 >
27
28 Yes, they will be needed at compile time, that would explain why no
29 problem raised for now :/ Thanks for the info
30
31 > Also, why are you exporting HOME? PMS does that already...
32 >
33
34 Probably because it's inherited from current mono.eclass, but, are you
35 sure PMS does that already? There are more examples in the tree (in
36 eclasses and ebuilds) exporting HOME in similar way (vim.eclass for
37 example) :/ Or maybe it was started to be exported more recently and
38 this is only a relic :|

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