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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:57:15
Message-Id: 20050827165349.6edd20bf@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:00:06 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
2 <flameeyes@g.o> wrote:
3 | Attached there's an "autotools" eclass, it's basically a way to give
4 | more information to the user while providing an epatch-like die
5 | message. the eauto* calls are directly calls to the original command,
6 | without black magic, with the only exception of automake that is
7 | called with -afc options to let it update the support files.
8
9 I don't like it. It removes the ability to DEPEND (which you spelt
10 wrong, btw) upon the correct auto* version.
11
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13 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
14 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
15 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>