On Friday 01 July 2005 16:56, Aron Griffis wrote:
> Dan Armak wrote: [Fri Jul 01 2005, 03:42:22AM EDT]
>
> > ...OK, so deprange() needs to signal errors out-of-band. Like setting a
> > KM_ERROR variable which causes the eclass to abort later on.
>
> Heh, doesn't work for the same reason you can't exit. It's
> a subshell.
>
> How about this?
>
> ebuild:
> DEPEND="some stuff"
> qt_min_dep "3.3"
>
> eclass:
> qt_min_dep() {
> if cool; then
> DEPEND="${DEPEND} new stuff"
> else
> die "..."
> fi
> }
>
Would work, but be against the general move to make the general ebuild section
purely declarative :-( I don't want to change a great deal of code merely to
catch incorrectly written ebuilds, when we can already print messages on
stderr.I'd rather signal failure to code outside the subshell by touching a file in $T. -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951
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