Re: [gentoo-dev] Customize a ebuild before compiling

[Pete Gavin]

Hi Hendrik,

This is basically the premise behind USE variables, but its
non-interactive and provides consistency throughout the system. So,
for example, xemacs will only provide X11 support if the "X" USE
variable is set, or Xaw will be used if "xaw" is in USE. This doesn't
really allow extremely fine-tuned customizations, but occaisionally,
if I really need to, I'll do ebuild unpack, then configure stuff the
way I want it, then do ebuild compile merge. This is definitely
cheating though :)

Pete
<alkaline@g.o>

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:53:02PM +0200, Hendrik Visage wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>  One of my personal main "gripes" about the portage/ports/.srpm etc.
> setups, are that I can't "tune" the installation in a managed fashion,
>
>  An example is flwm (Nothing against tadpol, thanx for the -r1 :)
> that have some interesting configuration changes that can only be made in
> the config.h file before compilation.
>
> Now my wishlist for ebuilds etc.
>  I'd like to have a interactive setup or step by step changes,
> ie.
>  issue the standard installation (Let's see if it install by default)
>  Then I'd like to ask it to extract the package, but to let me add some extra
> ./configure options (Enable this or disable that), eg. I'd like to have a text
> console only xemacs, or I'd like to have xaw instead of lucid menus etc. etc.
>  Then I'd like it to do the configure, and after that I'd like the possibility
> to vi some config.c for some changes in the system in the way *I* want it.
>  Then let it do the compile & install.
>
> Or am I missing a documentation page??
>
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