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From: Torsten Veller <tove@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in dev-db/firebird: ChangeLog metadata.xml firebird-2.0.3.12981.0-r1.ebuild firebird-2.0.1.12855.0-r4.ebuild firebird-2.0.1.12855.0-r5.ebuild
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:45:52
Message-Id: 20070924141835.TA76530.tv@veller.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in dev-db/firebird: ChangeLog metadata.xml firebird-2.0.3.12981.0-r1.ebuild firebird-2.0.1.12855.0-r4.ebuild firebird-2.0.1.12855.0-r5.ebuild by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 * "William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@g.o>:
2 > On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 10:29 +0200, Torsten Veller wrote:
3 > > * "William Thomson (wltjr)" <wltjr@g.o>:
4 > > >
5 > > > mkdir -p "${WORKDIR}/../etc" \
6 > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
7 > > What is this?
8 > >
9 > > > "${WORKDIR}/usr" \
10 > > > "${WORKDIR}/var/log/firebird" \
11 > > > "${WORKDIR}/var/run/firebird"
12 > > > cd "${WORKDIR}/usr"; ln -s "${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}/gen/firebird/bin"
13 > > > cd "${WORKDIR}/../etc"; ln -s "${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}/gen/firebird" firebird
14 > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
15 >
16 > It's symlinks so the runtime changes as to Firebirds don't prevent the
17 > build system from completing. Since the build system and normal Firebird
18 > installs expect everything to be under one directory. Not split into
19 > many. Nothing gets placed there, and they only act as links.
20
21 Well, I don't understand why you have to work outside of WORKDIR.
22 (${WORKDIR}/../)
23
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