Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] out-of-source.eclass: A new eclass to help with out-of-source builds

[David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 14:48 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> // NB: I'm not sure if I haven't submitted it already but that was
> // a long time ago, so let's try again. Requested by soap.
> 
> The out-of-source.eclass is a simple multilib-minimal-style wrapper
> to perform out of source builds of autotools (and other) packages. It
> is
> mostly derived from the function served in the past by autotools-
> utils
> since a number of developers found it useful. However, in order to
> avoid
> the mistakes of autotools-utils, it is meant to be focused on a
> single
> feature and have a better API.
> 
> This eclass has two use cases:
> 
> 1. Ensuring that packages are tested with out-of-source builds.
> 
> 2. Improving consistency between multilib and non-multilib packages.
> 
> In the most basic form, it just redefines the phases from
> src_configure()
> to src_install() with out-of-source wrappers. However, each phase can
> be overriden using my_src_*() sub-phase that is run inside build dir
> (alike multilib_src_*() in multilib-minimal). There is also
> my_src_install_all() for the trailing source-dir actions.

+1