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From: Luis Francisco Araujo <araujo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple compile-install phases
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:39:48
Message-Id: 4675B644.4000503@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple compile-install phases by George Shapovalov
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4 George Shapovalov wrote:
5 > Sunday, 17. June 2007, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) Ви написали:
6 >> I've encountered a few cases where the build process requires building and
7 >> installing something and then using that to build something else. Is there
8 >> a standard way to do this?
9 > I'd say - split the package in two (or how many pieces there are). Such
10 > procedure implies that the parts are already well isolated, so the split
11 > should not be that hard to do. Trying to force it "in one go" is not trivial
12 > usually, unless what you are talking about is some bootstrap procedure.
13 > However in that case there should be a certain way of "proper bootstrapping"
14 > for the package described in its install docs.
15 >
16 > George
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18 Splitting the package is a good idea indeed.
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20 If it is needed a bootstrapping , you could build a binary version of
21 the necessary components of the package, that's what we do with ghc and
22 many of the languages packages inside dev-lang.
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24 Regards,
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28 Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
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