From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from supermail.mweb.co.za (supermail.mweb.co.za [196.2.53.171]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF00A2005DCC for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 22:40:56 -0600 (CST) Received: from [196.30.179.61] (helo=nosferatu.lan) by supermail.mweb.co.za with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16cIuE-0001LI-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 06:26:31 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] help with readline confusion From: Martin Schlemmer To: Gentoo-Dev In-Reply-To: <1013248371.17757.14.camel@gentoo.shacknet.nu> References: <1013248371.17757.14.camel@gentoo.shacknet.nu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ub6kyCWBRZ0gGygmfpyB" X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 17 Feb 2002 06:35:10 +0200 Message-Id: <1013920511.23189.4.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 47954550-63f7-43cf-b082-c295cffc39a2 X-Archives-Hash: 749b7b64a6de2252800b5735b18afe9c --=-ub6kyCWBRZ0gGygmfpyB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 11:52, Matthew Kennedy wrote: > I was creating an ebuild for octave and I noticed something interesting. > The 2.1.x branch of octave checks for readline 4.2 during configure. > Since my system (recently rsync'd too) has readline 4.1, octave's > configure fails. >=20 > Then I happened to look in /usr/portage/sys-libs/readline and I see > ebuilds for 4.1, 4.2 and 4.2a:=20 >=20 > readline-4.1-r3.ebuild =20 > readline-4.2.ebuild =20 > readline-4.2a.ebuild >=20 > (4.2a having the latest mtime) >=20 > If I emerge --search, I get the following: >=20 > * sys-libs/readline=20 > Latest version Available: 4.1-r3 > Latest version Installed: 4.1-r3 > =20 > My question has two parts. 1.I had expected that the "latest version > available" would show 4.2a, but it doesn't. I must be missing something > about how emerge determines which ebuild is the latest available. Is > 4.2a not to be used just right now? >=20 Something (think it was bash-2.4) didnt want to build against readline-4.2, so if you can build a system totally against readline-4.2 (you will have to unmask it before bootstrapping), without problems, we can start to think about doing so. > 2. octave want's 4.2. I can satisfy it with an "ebuild > readline-4.2a.ebuild merge", but then I don't think i should, because if > users aren't getting 4.2 from an emerge, then I doubt I can expect them > to ebuild it manually when they emerge the octave package. Does this > logic sound right? >=20 > Many thanks, >=20 > Matt >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-ub6kyCWBRZ0gGygmfpyB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA8bzL+lsNeMtCTD6kRAvK3AJ0a1wIJeNUpV1Ap2K2GcWarvBZT0wCdFDlp 7CnUVM09A8XvUrDy9jbCP94= =OhIm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ub6kyCWBRZ0gGygmfpyB--