From: Grant Goodyear <goodyea@clemson.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] link or patch?
Date: 13 Jan 2002 14:22:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1010949721.20185.2.camel@server.g2.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201131639.g0DGd2m08740@math.Princeton.EDU>
> Some packages look for files in the wrong place, e.g. /usr/include/libxml
> for files which gentoo puts in /usr/include/libxml2/libxml, and don't
> have configure options to specify the correct path. One can fix this
> either by patching Makefiles or by creating symlinks. I normally do
> the latter. My question is: What should one do in an ebuild? Does
> gentoo have a policy about how to fix these packages?
In general we prefer to patch the Makefiles (or add the correct flag
to ./configure).
Best,
g2boojum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-13 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-13 16:39 [gentoo-dev] link or patch? John Stalker
2002-01-13 19:22 ` Grant Goodyear [this message]
2002-01-13 18:38 ` Charles Kerr
2002-01-13 18:47 ` Martin Schlemmer
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