[gentoo-dev] Emacs ebuild and LEIM

[gentoo-dev] Emacs ebuild and LEIM

[Ryan Shaw]

Hello, 

I am planning on doing an ebuild for the Libraries of 
Emacs Input Methods, or LEIM. The way these are usually
built from source is:

1) the emacs src tarball is downloaded and extracted,
2) the matching (same version) leim tarball is downloaded 
   and extracted into the same dir (creating a new src subdir),
3) emacs is built and installed as normal.

It would be nice if the leim ebuild could be written in 
such a way as to depend on the emacs ebuild, in which
case all the leim ebuild would need to specify is where
to get the leim src tarball. Everything else is already
done in the emacs ebuild.

My question: is there a way to do this? Or does there
need to be a new emacs-leim ebuild that conflicts with,
and mostly replicates, the emacs ebuild?

Or is this something that could be added to the emacs 
ebuild, possibly governed by a new USE variable (say
"multi-byte" for apps that have compile-time options
for multi-byte charset support)?

Please let me know your thoughts.

Ryan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Emacs ebuild and LEIM

[Matthew Kennedy]

Ryan Shaw <ryan.shaw@stanfordalumni.org> writes:

> Or is this something that could be added to the emacs 
> ebuild, possibly governed by a new USE variable (say
> "multi-byte" for apps that have compile-time options
> for multi-byte charset support)?

IMO, a use flag is appropriate. Check out how xemacs handles support
for Mule. I think it's pretty similar to what you're trying to
achieve.

-- 
Matthew Kennedy
Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Emacs ebuild and LEIM

[Ryan Shaw]

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okay, but the emacs ebuild does include mule, just
not leim. so the "mule" USE variable can't be used
for this: we would need a new variable.

in any case, i thought USE variables were meant to
be applicable across packages; but "mule" and "leim"
are pretty much emacs-specific. wouldn't in be 
better to have a general "multi-byte" or "i18n"
USE variable?

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 17:31, Matthew Kennedy wrote:

> Ryan Shaw <ryan.shaw@stanfordalumni.org> writes:
> 
> > Or is this something that could be added to the emacs 
> > ebuild, possibly governed by a new USE variable (say
> > "multi-byte" for apps that have compile-time options
> > for multi-byte charset support)?
> 
> IMO, a use flag is appropriate. Check out how xemacs handles support
> for Mule. I think it's pretty similar to what you're trying to
> achieve.
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Kennedy
> Gentoo Linux Developer
> 
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