On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Justin (jlec) <j...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 02/11/15 23:38, William Hubbs wrote: > Hi William, > > but instead of adding > > DEPEND="||ยท( > >=dev-lang/go-1.4 > >=sys-devel/gcc-5.1.0:=[go] > > to ebuilds, you could create a virtual/go with that dependency and make all > packages depend on that instead of this || (). Maybe in future clang gets > also > support for go, then you would need to edit again all ebuilds. Having a > virtual > for that case is much simpler. This is how we are doing it for fortran. > > Another problem which you have with these split deps is the following. > Imagine > the user has gcc-5[go] installed, which fullfills the dependency > requirement. > But she selected gcc-4.9 as the active compiler, which doesn't have go > support. > The build will fail. For fortran we test in pkg_setup if we have a working > fortran compiler present. You would need to do the same for go compiler. > > Justin > > Pretty good ! I'll take it. thanks. -Leno Hou
