Re: [gentoo-user] creating a .9999 ebuild

Jc García <jyo.garcia@×××××.com> wrote:

> 2015-12-14 16:13 GMT-06:00  <covici@××××××××××.com>:
>
> > OK, I have one question more -- for the git, I need to run ./autogen
> > before I can run configure, do I need to put that in source_prepare, or
> > is this done automatically?
>
> That should mean the package you are building is using autotools as a
> build system, so you should inherit the autotools eclass and run
> eautoreconf in src_prepare(). I remember this is stuff that it's in
> the dev manual, that should be the place you should be looking mostly.
>
> PD: knowing the build system also helps a lot
>

Well, I did get it done, had to put a make  in the ebuild to create some
documents which was not there in the regular ebuild, and I had to run
autogen myself because of the peculiar way the author upstream does his
builds, but it did work.  Very handy to be able to do this kind of
thing.

Thanks all.

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