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From: Paul Varner <gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] re2c woes - badly broken with gcc 3.x - offering help, possible ebuild maintainership
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:16:45
Message-Id: 1081977396.21989.2.camel@beldin.local.domain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] re2c woes - badly broken with gcc 3.x - offering help, possible ebuild maintainership by Elfyn McBratney
1 On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 17:00, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
2 > > > Elfyn
3 > >
4 > > Heh - I appreciate you taking the time to look at this for us. Let me know
5 > > when you've got something you want us to look at.
6 >
7 > OK, I have something.. the only problem I see is that the re2c.org people
8 > won't be doing releases. They'll be working from CVS only. Marcus Boerger
9 > asked this:
10 >
11 > ". . .It would also be nice if gentoo could go with RPMs we provide from CVS
12 > now (see README.in file)."
13
14 The RPM eclass can be used to extract data from RPMs. If they provide a
15 source RPM, then you shouldn't have very many issues with creating an
16 ebuild to extract and build the software.
17
18 If they don't provide source RPM's you can still use the eclass to
19 create a binary ebuild.
20
21 Regards,
22 Paul
23
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Re: [gentoo-dev] re2c woes - badly broken with gcc 3.x - offering help, possible ebuild maintainership Elfyn McBratney <elfyn.mcbratney@×××××××.uk>