From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4274 invoked by uid 1002); 21 May 2003 20:06:39 -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 13970 invoked from network); 21 May 2003 20:06:39 -0000 Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 16:05:48 -0400 From: Kumba In-reply-to: To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-id: <3ECBDC1C.9040901@gentoo.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030515 Thunderbird/0.1a References: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild: Hard coded paths X-Archives-Salt: 979dead3-fca6-44aa-94f4-21cc7e9e9fa8 X-Archives-Hash: b3972b099f94cb49ca2085e205f233b4 I always thought integrating an IRCd would be a pain in the neck into portage because of their method of requiring the user to edit header files before compiliation, and with instances like you've mentioned. If hybrid is any example, adding others, like Bahamut, Unreal, Tiamat, etc.., will probably be...."fun". --Kumba John wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to create an ebuild for ircd-hybrid. This irc server > requires that the path to where it is installed get compiled into the > binary. I have verified that $P does not cut it (it is the location > of the temorary image directory). > > How is something like this handled in portage? Can I know during the > build where the final destination will be? Should I just "hard code" what > is probably the typical case? > > Thanks, > > John > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list