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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ECONF behavior
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:07:33
Message-Id: 87zkf8xd7a.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ECONF behavior by Harry Putnam
1 Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> writes:
2
3 > If I wanted to enable something during an emerge using ECONF to add a
4 > ./configure option... what is the proper syntax?
5 >
6 > I want to enable rootcommit for cvs. I thought I remembered something
7 > like:
8 >
9 > ECONF='--enable-rootcommit' USE='server' emerge -v cvs
10 >
11 > But when I watch that run I see --enable-rootcommit is not added to
12 > the configure flags.
13 >
14 > What have I done wrong? What should the cmdline look like?
15
16 Yikes, please disregard this request for help. I used the wrong
17 wording altogether... it should be EXTRA_ECONF=, not just ECONF=