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On Wednesday 11 June 2003 03:49, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: |
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> If this is the wrong list for this question please tell me where to move it |
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> but it doesn't seem to fit gentoo-user or any of the others. |
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> I want to do an ebuild for some programs but have never done one. I've |
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> read the Gentoo docs on ebuilds and eclasses and the man pages for ebuild. |
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> However, in looking at some ebuilds - noticably flight gear and wine-cvs I |
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> see variables such a $PV defined. The docs mention $P but not $PV or other |
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> variables. I've browsed some of the eclasses trying to find the |
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> definitions and haven't been successful. Where are these explained. Are |
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> there any more docs I can read? |
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Welcome to the club, it's not that hard. And don't start to look at either of |
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those ebuilds, it are complicated ones for "misbehaving" programs. Try |
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looking at some "clean" kde ebuilds using the kde eclass. (They are often |
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10-liners, with 5 lines being occupied by headers and witespace) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv |