Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

[Holly Bostick]

Matias Grana schreef:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:28:54PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:19:55 -0300 Matias Grana <matiasg@××××××.ar>
>>  wrote: | I'm trying to compile  vim  with +clipboard support. One
>> can do this | by passing  --enable-clipboard  to configure. There's
>> no USE flag for | this feature.
>>
>> Incorrect. USE="vim-with-x".
>>
>> -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox,
>> Cron) Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web             :
>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
>>
>
>
> Nicer! So this is what vim-with-x stand for! I saw the flag, but
> thought that it would pull down gvim, which I already have in my
> world. Now: this pops up a second question: where can we see the
> exact efect of USE flags on packages? For instance: what other
> features  'vim-with-x'  will enable?

USE flag descriptions can be found in /usr/portage/profiles. There are
two files:

/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc (for global USE flags), and
/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc (for local USE flags relevant to
individual packages).

You can of course search/grep normally through these files, but I find
it easier to nick an alias that someone on the list provided, and add it
to ~/.bashrc:

alias useflag='grep /usr/portage/profiles/use.*desc -e'

which enables me to do this (after re-sourcing ~/.bashrc, which I also
have an alias to do :-) ):

di 10/18/05 15:39
~
motub-> useflag vim-with-x
/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x -
Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard
features in xterm

And now I know what it does, instead of guessing ;-) .

Hope this helps
Holly
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