Re: [gentoo-dev] turning off a default compile option

[Jeffrey Forman]

Paul,

Like a grep of the kernel config? I'm not quite sure where to check for
linux capabilities. I'm still trying to wrap my head around exactly what
'linux capabilities' do. If the user is emerging something, obviously
they are running Gentoo linux. 

-jeffrey

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 08:44, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Monday 05 July 2004 15:36, Jeffrey Forman wrote:
> > I was talking to g2boojum and he suggested I ask on here. I was going
> > through my bind bugs recently and came upon
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51577
> >
> > The user would like a way to disable linux compatability if your kernel
> > does not support it by using the 'caps' use flag. Maybe I dont fully
> > understand 'linux compatability' but if we're all running Gentoo, arent
> > we all running linux in the first place?
> >
> > My problem surfaces: Bind enables 'linux compatability' by default.
> > Gentoo does have a linux compability flag (caps), but this is only to
> > ENABLE linux compatability, not to disable it. I attempted to use the
> > bugger's suggestion, but repoman got pissed on a full scan. Grant
> > mentioned maybe making 'caps' part of the default use flag.
> >
> > Basically I'd like a way of using a "reverse" use flag, -caps, and if
> > -caps is set, disable linux compat; if the flag is not set, do not add
> > any --config-option at all.
>
> As this does not actually introduce any dependencies I think that the best
> way might be to detect whether caps is available (and doing some part of
> the job that the configure script should do).
>
> Paul


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