Re: [gentoo-user] Polymake Ebuild and general questions

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:57:51 Thomas Kahle wrote:
> I've written an ebuild for a math-software called polymake
> (www.math.tu-berlin.de/polymake).
> You find it attached. You have to digest it yourself to use.
> ("ebuild polymake-2.3.ebuild digest")
> Maybe some people could test it (on amd64 for instance...).
>
> Now some questions:
>
> 1.) The Program uses non-autotools "self made" configuration via "make
> configure". Currently the Ebuild will ask questions to the user, which I
> want to prevent. How can i get around this?
> Is there some Bash trick to answer all questions with "Enter" ?
> 2.) The program needs to be rebuild after an upgrade of dev-lang/perl.
> How can i implement this in the ebuild ?
> 3.) Is there any chance that, after testing, this will land in the
> portage tree ? How can I do this,
> -email to dev-mailinglist?
> -bugzilla ?
> - ... ???

I know you've already gotten help on other mailing lists so I'm posting this 
for the benefit of other gentoo-user readers. A gentoo-devhelp mailing list 
was created last week. This is now the correct list for this kind of 
questions. :)

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Bo Andresen