* [gentoo-user] How to control 'configure' options for slrn?
@ 2021-09-25 23:32 Grant Edwards
2021-09-26 1:47 ` Ionen Wolkens
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From: Grant Edwards @ 2021-09-25 23:32 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
I'd like to build slrn with --enable-inews, but that doesn't seem to
be suppored by the ebuild. Is there some way to control autotools
'configure' options other than USE flags?
--
Grant
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* Re: [gentoo-user] How to control 'configure' options for slrn?
2021-09-25 23:32 [gentoo-user] How to control 'configure' options for slrn? Grant Edwards
@ 2021-09-26 1:47 ` Ionen Wolkens
2021-09-26 2:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2021-09-26 1:48 ` Grant Edwards
2021-09-26 9:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Anna “CyberTailor”
2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ionen Wolkens @ 2021-09-26 1:47 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 11:32:15PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'd like to build slrn with --enable-inews, but that doesn't seem to
> be suppored by the ebuild. Is there some way to control autotools
> 'configure' options other than USE flags?
Almost all ebuilds using ./configure support reading EXTRA_ECONF to
pass additional arguments (done automatically through econf wrapper).
e.g. EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-inews" could be added through package.env[1]
Can similarly be done for meson and cmake with MYMESONARGS and
MYCMAKEARGS if the ebuild is using the meson/cmake eclass.
ebuilds with custom systems may sometime use EXTRA_ECONF anyway
or some other custom variable (e.g. EXTRA_FFMPEG_CONF), usually
seen in the ebuild itself.
If you think it's an important option (haven't checked what it's
about), could also fill a bug to get it added / supported for
the long term.
[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env
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ionen
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* [gentoo-user] Re: How to control 'configure' options for slrn?
2021-09-25 23:32 [gentoo-user] How to control 'configure' options for slrn? Grant Edwards
2021-09-26 1:47 ` Ionen Wolkens
@ 2021-09-26 1:48 ` Grant Edwards
2021-09-26 9:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Anna “CyberTailor”
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From: Grant Edwards @ 2021-09-26 1:48 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 2021-09-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to build slrn with --enable-inews, but that doesn't seem to
> be suppored by the ebuild. Is there some way to control autotools
> 'configure' options other than USE flags?
found it: EXTRA_ECONF
# EXTRA_CONF=--enable-inews emerge slrn
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* [gentoo-user] Re: How to control 'configure' options for slrn?
2021-09-26 1:47 ` Ionen Wolkens
@ 2021-09-26 2:21 ` Grant Edwards
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From: Grant Edwards @ 2021-09-26 2:21 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 2021-09-26, Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Almost all ebuilds using ./configure support reading EXTRA_ECONF to
> pass additional arguments (done automatically through econf wrapper).
Yep, that works for the slrn ebuild.
> e.g. EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-inews" could be added through package.env[1]
If I need to keep that flag, that's what I'll do.
> [...]
>
> If you think it's an important option (haven't checked what it's
> about), could also fill a bug to get it added / supported for
> the long term.
Not only is NNTP getting pretty obscure and obsolete. Needing an NNTP
client to use inews instead of NNTP for posting, is even more obscure
and obsolete. I think EXTRA_ECONF is plenty good enough unless
somebody is aware of any other gentoo packages that could take
advantage of an "inews" USE flag...
--
Grant
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* Re: [gentoo-user] How to control 'configure' options for slrn?
2021-09-25 23:32 [gentoo-user] How to control 'configure' options for slrn? Grant Edwards
2021-09-26 1:47 ` Ionen Wolkens
2021-09-26 1:48 ` Grant Edwards
@ 2021-09-26 9:12 ` Anna “CyberTailor”
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From: Anna “CyberTailor” @ 2021-09-26 9:12 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
net-nntp/slrn is a proxy-maint package so feel free to either contact
its maintainer or submit improvements by yourself.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers/User_Guide#How_to_submit_package_updates
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