maillog: 07/12/2004-16:38:16(-0800): Donnie Berkholz types
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:16 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> > And to the attention of spyderous: kernel_is from linux-info returns a
> > valid exit code and outputs lots of einfos, therefore the [ $(kernel_is
> > ..) ] and the other $(kernel_is) must not be in a subshell whose output
> > is passed to the command line (hence the "Command '*' not understood").
> 
> I'm accepting patches that retain the former functionality.

I posted it four levels up in this thread, but here it is again anyway:

--- /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4.ebuild	2004-12-07 13:23:15.000000000 +0900
+++ ./xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4.ebuild	2004-12-07 17:59:24.000000000 +0900
@@ -670,7 +674,7 @@
                fi
 
                if ( [ -e "${ROOT}/usr/src/linux" ] \
-                       && [ ! $(kernel_is "2" "2") ] ) \
+                       && !( kernel_is "2" "2" ) ) \
                        || [ "$(uname -r | cut -d. -f1,2)" != "2.2" ]; then
                        echo "#define HasLinuxInput YES" >> ${HOSTCONF}
                fi
@@ -794,7 +798,7 @@
                                echo "#define ModuleAsCmd CcCmd -c -x assembler -fno-pie -fno-PIE" >> ${HOSTCONF}
                        fi
                        if ( [ -e "${ROOT}/usr/src/linux" ] \
-                               && !( $(kernel_is "2" "6") ) ) \
+                               && !( kernel_is "2" "6" ) ) \
                                || [ "$(uname -r | cut -d. -f1,2)" != "2.6" ]; then
                                einfo "Building for kernels less than 2.6 requires special treatment"
                                echo "#define UseDeprecatedKeyboardDriver YES" >> ${HOSTCONF}

It is a bit off, because I also have a patch for xft that makes it
generate bold fonts. You can still apply it manually anyway.

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