Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-writing/variables: better describe ROOT

["M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@iee.org>]

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On 10/05/16 16:08, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 05/08/2016 01:42 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> The current description of ROOT makes no sense and just confuses people.
>> The new description is paraphrased from PMS.
> The current version is bad, but the PMS version isn't great either.
>
> We really need examples for D, ROOT, ED, EROOT, and EPREFIX.
> When/where/why should they (not) be used? How do they compare/contrast?
> A lot of people just guess. Our invocation of emake DESTDIR="${D}"
> pretty well explains $D, but how the rest of them interact is left up to
> your imagination.
Agreed .. the devmanual doesn't expand a lot on this, and many of the
other ebuild variables A, S, etc and how to properly use them.

The 'emake' statement is part of default phases in EAPI5+ so this
may/should(?) not appear in newer ebuilds I would have thought, but
perhaps someone could clarify on this.

Michael.


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