Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic SLOTs

[Jason Stubbs]

On Thursday 05 August 2004 12:00, Aron Griffis wrote:
> Jason Stubbs wrote:	[Wed Aug 04 2004, 07:47:41PM EDT]
>
> > On Thursday 05 August 2004 05:11, Aron Griffis wrote:
> > > Jason Stubbs wrote:	[Wed Aug 04 2004, 10:28:04AM EDT]
> > >
> > > > 4. Fix ebuilds so that they link against ${ROOT} rather than assuming
> > > > "/".
> > >
> > > This sounds Really Hard.
> > >
> > > How about devising a method to chroot to ${ROOT} for src_compile when
> > > [[ ${ROOT} != / ]].  I know this would require some work, but it just
> > > might be less work than fixing the ebuilds to link against ${ROOT},
> > > which sounds extremely tedious and error-prone.
> >
> > That would require getting the immediate build deps and the deep
> > runtime build deps copied into a temporary directory within $ROOT at
> > the start of every emerge. It would also require every ebuild to be
> > updated so that all deps, including those in system, are listed.
>
> I must really be missing something.  I thought that if you're "fixing
> ebuilds so they link against ${ROOT}" then you must already have what
> you need in ${ROOT}, right?
>
> It seems like either method depends on that.  I'm sure I'm missing
> something...

Only the runtime dependencies need to go into $ROOT. Build time dependencies 
don't need to be, which is especially important for embedded systems.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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