Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New eclass for x11 packages

[Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@gentoo.org>]

Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> Hi,
> we prepared new eclass for x11 packages that should be used as
> replacement for x-modular.eclass.

> Prefix support done.

There's one thing I don't find addressed yet:

When some patch[1] necessary for some (prefix-) platform has to touch
configure.ac or Makefile.am, rendering eautoreconf mandatory on
*each* platform, there's no way to tell xorg-2_reconf_source() to
do the eautoreconf instead of elibtoolize *unconditionally*.

We had to have libXaw.ebuild do the eautoreconf unconditionally[2] after
x-modular_src_unpack() - which just did elibtoolize on some platforms,
causing elibtoolize to get run twice, resulting in bug#232820 [3].

Even if libXaw doesn't need those patches any more it seems,
there's no reason such patches won't become necessary again.

[1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/browser/trunk/prefix-overlay/x11-libs/libXaw/files/libXaw-1.0.5-darwin.patch?rev=37037
[2] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/browser/trunk/prefix-overlay/x11-libs/libXaw/libXaw-1.0.6.ebuild?rev=49677#L43
[3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232820

/haubi/

PS: Just a suggestion what an ebuild could do in this case:
 src_prepare() {
     xorg-2_src_prepare --force-eautoreconf
 }
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Michael Haubenwallner
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