Re: [gentoo-user] hacking an ebuild

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 19 June 2007, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> The devs seems to be busy. Also, I should have learn this some time
> ago anyway. There is a existing ebuild for JFFNMS, but, it is masked
> for amd64. Is there a guide I can follow to use an x86 ebuild and
> create an amd64 derivative ebuild? Since it uses php and other high
> level software, I would not think that this is a terrible difficult
> process....?
>
> If not, can somebody briefly itemized what needs to be done,
> in very general terms, to hack together an ebuild for amd64
> when one exist for x86?

I took a quick look inside the ebuils. Nothing there seems amd64 
specific, so here's how I would proceed;

Create a user overlay in the usual place - $PORTDIR/local/
Copy the ebuild there as normal
modify KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64
Check that all the dependencies have amd64 ebuilds as well
emerge jffnms and see what happens

alan


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