From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3779 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Jun 2003 09:05:20 -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 22396 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2003 09:05:20 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:05:18 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_PDv5+kGV+CbDuuM"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200306111105.19178.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild questions X-Archives-Salt: bbd9c981-646c-4f0b-86b8-4f73049013a8 X-Archives-Hash: bfc1c766f01e9bb0990a71f9b07819a0 --Boundary-02=_PDv5+kGV+CbDuuM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 11 June 2003 03:49, 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 oth= er > 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? > Welcome to the club, it's not that hard. And don't start to look at either = of=20 those ebuilds, it are complicated ones for "misbehaving" programs. Try=20 looking at some "clean" kde ebuilds using the kde eclass. (They are often=20 10-liners, with 5 lines being occupied by headers and witespace) Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv --Boundary-02=_PDv5+kGV+CbDuuM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+5vDPbKx5DBjWFdsRAv3QAJoDrEFNBG1KOHSDp6wNv9UUEWgk4QCggIn5 j9bVUtWODu7P/4DwkYzrW4M= =a/Ea -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_PDv5+kGV+CbDuuM--