Re: [gentoo-dev] Common make.conf screwups?

["Brian Jackson" <iggy@gentoo.org>]

On 7:45:29 pm 11/18/04 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I've got some better vim syntax highlighting rules for make.conf lined
> up to go into the next app-vim/gentoo-syntax. One of the things that
> this lets me do is highlighting of (some kinds of) mistakes. What're
> the most common screwups that people see? My current list is:

I don't know if you can detect it, but basing a var on another unset var,
i.e.

#PORTDIR=/usr/portage
then later in make.conf:
PKGDIR=${PORTDIR}/packages
or something similar

--Iggy

>
> * CFLAGS: -0[123s] instead of -O[123s], -ffast-math globally
>
> * USE: +foo flags
>
> * ACCEPT_KEYWORDS: random duff entries (syntax is easy enough for me
> to validate the whole thing)
>
> * CHOST: there're certain settings that will cause glibc to fall over
> and die that people who are used to debian/sparc will sometimes use
>
> * MAKEOPTS: I'm kinda tempted to highlight "-j N" (where n is integer)
>
> --
> Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips)
> Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
> Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
>


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