From: Bob Phan <bob@endlessrecursion.net>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild optional dependancy question
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:24:19 +0000 (/etc/localtime) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0203111512000.6352-100000@lucifer.evil-core.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020311152003.A1A4E33E7A@bmr.zenmonkey.org>
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Brian M. Rzycki wrote:
> The second program (yafc -- yafc.sourceforge.net) is not as
> straightforward as zile. For the uninitiated, yafc is an interactive
> ftp client similar to lftp with support for socks4/5, kerberos4/5, and
> sftp. Yafc's configure script automatically enables/disables ssh and
> readline if it finds the libraries. The same is not true for socks and
> kerberos. I merged kth-krb (kerberos4) and saw it installed everything in
> /usr/athena. When I manually gave configure the parameter
> --with-krb4=/usr/athena it compiled with kerberos4 support. I had similar
> results with dante (socks4/5).
>
> After discovering I had to manually apply parameters to the configure
> script in order for socks/kerberos support I went looking for use
> variables. I planned on using the "if [ -z "use_var" ]" trick from the
> gentoo-howto. Unfortunately I didn't see either socks or krb4/5 use
> variables.
>
> So my question is this: What is the correct gentoo way of discovering
> these packages? Should I consult /var/db/pkg/app_group/app_name* to see
> if the program is installed? Should I check the physical location for
> the libraries (a la -d /usr/athena)? Or am I just a numbskull and
> missing some obvious feature of portage which makes my life much easier?
I was actually planning on making a yafc ebuild myself :). Anyway, you
want to use the notation like this (which is all in the developer howto):
DEPEND="...
lots of usual stuff
...
NAME_OF_USE_VAR? ( >=category/package-version_number )
for example:
krb4? ( >=app-crypt/kth-krb-1.1-r1 )
Then, in the src_compile secion of the ebuild, you want to put:
local myopts
if [ -n "`use krb4`" ]
then
myopts="${myopts} --with-krb4"
fi
./configure \
${myopts}
You might want to read some other ebuilds to get a good feel as to how
this works.
Disclaimer:
I'm not a gentoo developer, so my suggestions are subject to critisizm.
Also, krb4 is not a recognized USE parameter. You might want to ask an
official gentoo developer how that should be handled, perhaps there should
be an official gentoo USE parameter for kerberos 4 and 5. My suggestion
is krb4 and krb5, but that's just my suggestion.
Hope this was helpful.
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2002-03-11 15:20 [gentoo-dev] ebuild optional dependancy question Brian M. Rzycki
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