On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:57:51 Thomas Kahle wrote: > I've written an ebuild for a math-software called polymake > (www.math.tu-berlin.de/polymake). > You find it attached. You have to digest it yourself to use. > ("ebuild polymake-2.3.ebuild digest") > Maybe some people could test it (on amd64 for instance...). > > Now some questions: > > 1.) The Program uses non-autotools "self made" configuration via "make > configure". Currently the Ebuild will ask questions to the user, which I > want to prevent. How can i get around this? > Is there some Bash trick to answer all questions with "Enter" ? > 2.) The program needs to be rebuild after an upgrade of dev-lang/perl. > How can i implement this in the ebuild ? > 3.) Is there any chance that, after testing, this will land in the > portage tree ? How can I do this, > -email to dev-mailinglist? > -bugzilla ? > - ... ??? I know you've already gotten help on other mailing lists so I'm posting this for the benefit of other gentoo-user readers. A gentoo-devhelp mailing list was created last week. This is now the correct list for this kind of questions. :) http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml -- Bo Andresen