Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Feedback on new ebuilds

[Evan Read]

> 	Hi;
>
> 	If you have a problem with making an ebuild, most times,
> it has been encountered and solved in an existing ebuild. One
> way to find them is with rgrep, or something like:
>
> find /usr/portage -name "*.ebuild" -exec grep -i REGEXP {} /dev/null \;
>
> 	Where, in your case 'CFLAGS' might be a good REGEXP
> string.  I believe make.conf is basicly a collection of env
> variables, which are available to an ebuild. eg. ${CFLAGS} and
> ${CXXFLAGS} are set for you.
> 	Other peoples ebuilds often make interesting reading.
> Good luck!

Hey, 

I had tried the env variable thing but not properly ;)  Here was the
line that did it:

emake CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} || die

Thanks Paul.

 
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