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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