Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild for Emacs LEIM

[James Vandenberg <james@vandenberg.dropbear.id.au>]

Hi,

This is what Ryan Shaw at Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:21:54PM +0900 wrote:
> I am planning on doing an ebuild for the Libraries of 
> Emacs Input Methods, or LEIM. The way these are usually
> built from source is:
> 
> 1) the emacs src tarball is downloaded and extracted,
> 2) the matching (same version) leim tarbell is downloaded 
>    and extracted into the same dir (creating a new src subdir),
> 3) emacs is built and installed as normal.
> 
> It would be nice if the leim ebuild could be written in 
> such a way as to depend on the emacs ebuild, in which
> case all the leim ebuild would need to specify is where
> to get the leim src tarball. Everything else is already
> done in the emacs ebuild.
> 
> My question: is there a way to do this? Or does there
> need to be a new emacs-leim ebuild that conflicts with,
> and mostly replicates, the emacs ebuild?

I have a similar problem with the maxima build I am trying to create. It
requires the location that GCL stores it's .o files. However it looks like gcl
has to be compiled and installed in a special way to do this.

I'd be interested in how to solve this as well.

James,
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