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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] src_configure
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:13:12
Message-Id: 200508231509.09908.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] src_configure by Aron Griffis
1 On Thursday 07 July 2005 03:14, Aron Griffis wrote:
2 > Roy Marples wrote: [Wed Jul 06 2005, 08:51:17PM EDT]
3 >
4 > > ebuilds could be changed over time - unless I'm missing something
5 > > basic here ..
6 >
7 > Yes, you're missing the default functions. Presently src_compile does
8 > (effectively) "econf && emake" if the function isn't defined. That
9 > would be broken into two default functions now, but none of the
10 > ebuilds have src_configure defined, so it would be broken for all of
11 > them.
12
13 Another issue is the fact that current portage versions will not work with
14 ebuilds with the new format. The format code at least should be out for a
15 while before changing the ebuilds over.
16
17 Paul
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20 Paul de Vrieze
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