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Is this good to create a new file for 2 variables? |
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Maybe it would be more simpler if all happened with one switch? |
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2006/3/21, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>: |
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> Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > Don't think I have to reiterate the whole story of having arch specific |
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> > make.conf files and why that sucks, but just had an idea how to solve |
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> > the problem other than removing them completely: |
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> > Just move the arch specific crap (CHOST and CFLAGS) to a separate file, |
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> > and reintegrate it at install time. So make.conf.x86 in svn would only |
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> > contain CHOST/CFLAGS and related comments while make.conf (which |
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> > currently is only a fallback) contains the portage relevant parts, and |
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> > the ebuild just concatenates them in src_compile to create a single |
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> > arch specific make.conf.example. |
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> That seems a lot better than the current situation. |
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> > First I also considerd using the "source" instruction instead of |
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> > reintegrating the files, but that doesn't really work for an example |
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> > file that's mainly intended to be read by the user. |
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> > Of course removing the arch specific files completely and only have |
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> > the fallback make.conf is still an option, but would need a discussion |
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> > with releng and the docs team probably. |
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> Perhaps it's better to maintain such arch specific information somewhere else such as the handbook. It'd be nice to keep the docs included with portage as arch independent as possible. |
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> > Any objections against doing this for the next releases? |
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> I'd like to do this (at least the first option) for the next release. |
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> Zac |
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