From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ENIbG-00046k-0y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:23:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j95NE1km027078; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 23:14:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j95NE0jS023226 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 23:14:00 GMT Received: from cpe-65-26-255-237.wi.res.rr.com ([65.26.255.237] helo=nightcrawler) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1ENIal-0007TE-Av for gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:22:31 +0000 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:22:37 -0500 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Questions about CVS locations and GID... Message-ID: <20051005232236.GE13519@nightcrawler> References: <43443257.8090800@egr.msu.edu> <20051005202429.GC10159@nightcrawler> <20051005215703.73327655@snowdrop.home> <20051005211306.GE10159@nightcrawler> <20051005233132.583685f6@snowdrop.home> <20051005230012.GK10159@nightcrawler> <20051006001430.364854e2@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tVmo9FyGdCe4F4YN" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051006001430.364854e2@snowdrop.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 28b52eaf-ed79-41c2-9cfe-8d7dde825d54 X-Archives-Hash: 29651b1111382104b1d688aa00918de4 --tVmo9FyGdCe4F4YN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:14:30AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:00:12 -0500 Brian Harring > wrote: > | Beyond that, there is the shebang issue which can be addresses via a=20 > | combination of automated scans/fixes, and fixing bugs as it's hit. =20 > | Hardcoded vars in scripts for the path to a binary are an issue also,= =20 > | although again, scans can be done to at least check for it. >=20 > This one's a far bigger issue than might be initially obvious. It would > involve rewriting a whole load of autotools innards... Clarify. My knowledge of autotool innards is that it relies on $PATH=20 for lookup of the tools it uses. > | Leaves mangling the build process so that the build framework of the=20 > | package uses the prefix offset files, rather then / . For c/c++=20 > | source, usual trick from fink afaik involves a mangling of cflags > | with -I tacked in. Kinda ugly, although I'd expect there is a better= =20 > | route. >=20 > Again, autoconf tinkering. Statement above is from digging through generated configure script. ~harring --tVmo9FyGdCe4F4YN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDRGA8vdBxRoA3VU0RAn8PAKCOSwjtE0+rRTitADBc5bkBo2Wx9QCg7R5U nlhNq5/HWw+ljmyUjuu9Bwg= =UcZ7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tVmo9FyGdCe4F4YN-- -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list