[gentoo-dev] autoconf variables and USE (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] common ebuild mistakes)

[Stanislav Brabec]

Martin, Stephen wrotte:
> Aron Griffis wrote:
> >
> > 2. Changing $myconf is necessary.  The presence of aalib on the system
> >    should not determine whether mplayer uses aalib.  That should be
> >    determined by the USE flag.  In other words, mplayer should not use
> >    aalib when USE=-aalib, even if aalib exists on the system.
> I'm not sure if there's a way around this,
> perhaps the Makefile needs to be patched?

If configure option --disable does not exist, you can use very often
configure cache variables:

./configure ... -C

Now watch cache and add variable name to ebuild script.

For example see /usr/portage/app-emulation/wine/wine-20030508.ebuild

(blocking jack is done by this way)

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Stanislav Brabec
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