Re: [gentoo-pms] EAPI specification in ebuilds

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Robin H Johnson wrote:

>> +^[ \t]*EAPI=(['"]?)([A-Za-z0-9+_.-]*)\1[ \t]*(#.*)?$
> EAPI=
> is valid in this. Was that intended?

An empty EAPI is equivalent to EAPI 0 (says PMS), therefore "EAPI=" is
valid in ebuilds.

But this is sort of academic, because no ebuild in the tree contains
an empty EAPI assignment.

> Will there be any issue overriding EAPI as an env var to call a
> function/command?
> EAPI=... foo

This won't match the regexp, and I believe that such usage is illegal
anyhow.

Ulrich