Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 06:39:41PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Daniel Drake wrote:
> > - I'm manually configuring a package that I want installed in ebuild-fashion.
> > I know when an ebuild runs econf it passes many configure parameters to
> > achieve this (installation into /var/tmp, etc.). It would be nice if I could
> > just run "econf" from the command line and still achieve this. Similarly for
> > emake. Then I can somehow tell portage I've done src_unpack and src_compile
> > manually, so I'd just like it to get on from src_install onwards.
> 
> You could source whatever files contain those functions, and create the
> files telling portage it's finished certain steps. I think there's a
> .compiled, not sure about others.

You want an ebuild shell, basically?  Akin to sandbox shell?

Via cvs head of portage (doesn't work without a bit o hackery for 
stable)

http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/ebuild-env
http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/ebuild.bashrc

Give you such a shell.
Details are at http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/blog/archives/2005-03.html#e2005-03-09T04_43_49.txt
~brian
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