From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PxMTL-0006SD-0f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:42:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CFC6E04C1; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 235DBE04C1 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pelican.gentoo.org (unknown [66.219.59.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A83411B4082 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pelican.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F9A8006A for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:42:41 +0000 (UTC) From: "Jeremy Olexa" To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, "Jeremy Olexa" Message-ID: <4d025023b322d0f82f49143a3164a3d0c176485d.darkside@gentoo> Subject: [gentoo-commits] proj/devmanual:master commit in: ebuild-writing/common-mistakes/ X-VCS-Repository: proj/devmanual X-VCS-Files: ebuild-writing/common-mistakes/text.xml X-VCS-Directories: ebuild-writing/common-mistakes/ X-VCS-Committer: darkside X-VCS-Committer-Name: Jeremy Olexa X-VCS-Revision: 4d025023b322d0f82f49143a3164a3d0c176485d Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:42:41 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 21fbe603a42002c1ffca4987b8c128ae commit: 4d025023b322d0f82f49143a3164a3d0c176485d Author: Jeremy Olexa gentoo org> AuthorDate: Wed Mar 9 16:37:45 2011 +0000 Commit: Jeremy Olexa gentoo org> CommitDate: Wed Mar 9 16:37:45 2011 +0000 URL: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=3Dproj/devmanual.git= ;a=3Dcommit;h=3D4d025023 common-mistakes: Add section about ROOT Patch by Thilo Bangert, bug 258125 --- ebuild-writing/common-mistakes/text.xml | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/ebuild-writing/common-mistakes/text.xml b/ebuild-writing/com= mon-mistakes/text.xml index 8fda324..d2f5fcf 100644 --- a/ebuild-writing/common-mistakes/text.xml +++ b/ebuild-writing/common-mistakes/text.xml @@ -21,6 +21,22 @@ the dynamic and static libraries. =20
+Invalid use of <c>ROOT</c> + +

+The usage of ROOT is only designed to influence the way the packa= ge is +installed (ie. into ROOT) - building and compiling should not dep= end on +ROOT. As a consequence of this the usage of ROOT in src= _* +functions is not allowed. +

+ +

+See also . +

+ +
+ +
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