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From: Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] epatch_user usage
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:14:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1335240855.4641.9.camel@rook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120424060532.3a566737@pomiocik.lan>

On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 06:05 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:45:36 -0500
> Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > So I've just had one reservation when using epatch_user for allowing
> > users to apply patches. And that's figuring out when to run
> > eautoreconf. I don't necessarily want to run it unconditionally but
> > sometimes users have patches which touch autoconf files but my
> > existing patch set doesn't so I'm not calling eautoreconf. Does anyone
> > have a suggested way to handle this?
> 
> inherit autotools-utils

That doesn't help the numerous packages that don't ship some of the
autoconf macros they use in their source tarball, and therefore require
additional build-time dependencies (gnome-common, gtk-doc-am, and so
forth) to provide the macros needed for eautoreconf.

-Alexandre.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-24  3:45 [gentoo-dev] epatch_user usage Doug Goldstein
2012-04-24  3:57 ` Arun Raghavan
2012-04-24  4:05 ` Michał Górny
2012-04-24  4:14   ` Alexandre Rostovtsev [this message]
2012-04-24  4:18     ` Michał Górny
2012-04-24  4:27       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-24  4:10 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-24  4:15   ` Michał Górny
2012-04-24  4:25     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-24  8:35       ` Michał Górny
2012-04-24  4:33   ` Doug Goldstein
2012-04-26  4:45 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2012-04-26  5:06   ` Zac Medico
2012-05-04  4:50     ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-05-04 20:23       ` Michał Górny
2012-05-05  6:01         ` Ryan Hill

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