From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I customize x11-terms/xterm?
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 08:52:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180109085201.62cf268c@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f2ff5f5-90e8-6f77-380b-b3a3fc2ac354@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 22:57:30 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote:
> I have been playing with a customized version of Xterm outside of
> portage and I'd like to migrate my customizations to the copy of Xterm
> that is emerged as part of the system.
>
> So far my customizations consist of a modified ./configure command to
> enable options that I want.
You can usually add extra configure items by creating, in your
case /etc/portage/env/x11-terms/xterm containing
> How do I replicate that via portage?
EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-blah..."
> What would I need to do if I wanted to patch a source file?
Putting the patch in /etc/portage/patches/x11-xterms/xterm should do it.
Both of these features are on by default in EAPI6, the xterm ebuild uses
EAPI5 so try it and see.
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Neil Bothwick
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 5:57 [gentoo-user] How do I customize x11-terms/xterm? Grant Taylor
2018-01-09 8:52 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2018-01-09 17:14 ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-09 18:16 ` Andrew Barchuk
2018-01-09 18:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-01-15 0:00 ` Grant Taylor
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