Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The merge of emerde with emerge

[Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>]

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Alpt wrote:
| On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 01:15:33AM -0500, Aaron Walker after a spiritual call
wrote  :
| ~>
| ~> | ah, I forgot to say that there's also this:
| ~> | The E_INFODIR, E_LOCALSTATEDIR, E_MANDIR, E_SYSCONFDIR, E_DATADIR
options was
| ~> added
| ~> | in make.conf. With these the user can choose the destination dirs of
thepackages
| ~> | being installed.
| ~>
| ~> The EXTRA_ECONF variable currently exists for this (and anything else the user
| ~> wants to change).
| ~>
| ~> EXTRA_ECONF="--infodir=... --localstatedir=... etc ..."
|
| really?
| then why in econf the ./configure stuff is done with absolute path?

Because those are the defaults.  They have to default to something, even if
unspecified (in that case --prefix=/usr/local iirc).

| if you pass to EXTRA_CONF --mandire for example then you'll have
| ./configure --mandir /usr/share/man --mandir USER_SUPPLIED_PATH
| what will happen?

afaik, configure will use the last specified option.  If you specify --mandir
twice, it'll use the last specified one (see for yourself).  That's probably
the reason EXTRA_ECONF is passed to configure *after* the paths.

| anyway I think it's cleaner to keep  E_INFODIR, E_LOCALSTATEDIR,
| E_MANDIR, E_SYSCONFDIR, E_DATADIR  separated from EXTRA_CONF

It's your program, so you are more than welcome to.  I just wanted to make sure
you were aware that there is already a way to do this.

Cheers
- --
Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow.

Aaron Walker < ka0ttic@gentoo.org >	http://dev.gentoo.org/~ka0ttic/
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