On 03/28/2015 10:36 AM, James wrote: > James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > >> Often, I need to inspect and ponder these files: configure.ac and Makefile >> .am for a given ebuild. Is there an easy way to look at them with >> compiling the ebuild ? > > oops, > > Should be : Often, I need to inspect and ponder these files: configure.ac > and Makefile.am for a given ebuild. Is there an easy way to look at them > *without* compiling the ebuild ? >
Those files are part of the upstream tarball. The easiest way to fetch the sources without compiling them is with `emerge -f`. Then you can copy the tarball out of $DISTDIR and unpack it somewhere. Some ebuilds may patch configure.ac or Makefile.am -- in that case it's a little harder. I'm sure there's an elegant way to do it, but what I usually do is begin to emerge the package and Ctrl-C it when it starts compiling. Then you can find the sources under /var/tmp/portage.
