From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24226 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Jun 2003 03:47:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 30047 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2003 03:47:35 -0000 From: Brian Jackson Organization: brianandsara.net To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:47:39 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306102247.39683.brian@mdrx.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild questions X-Archives-Salt: cec0aae5-8696-4684-beb9-1a6bb3efe622 X-Archives-Hash: 9ea47aa6e54fc07d5851253bdcd3c9dc # man 5 ebuild is pretty up to date other than that, I would just look through others that do something similar and see how they do things --Brian On Tuesday 10 June 2003 08:49 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > If this is the wrong list for this question please tell me where to move it > but it doesn't seem to fit gentoo-user or any of the others. > > I want to do an ebuild for some programs but have never done one. I've > read the Gentoo docs on ebuilds and eclasses and the man pages for ebuild. > However, in looking at some ebuilds - noticably flight gear and wine-cvs I > see variables such a $PV defined. The docs mention $P but not $PV or other > variables. I've browsed some of the eclasses trying to find the > definitions and haven't been successful. Where are these explained. Are > there any more docs I can read? > > Thanks. -- OpenGFS -- http://opengfs.sourceforge.net Home -- http://www.brianandsara.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list