Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-28 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 13:54 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 28 August 2005 01:43 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 12:50 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 August 2005 07:28 am, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 01:59 -0400, Mike Frysing

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 28 August 2005 01:43 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 12:50 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Sunday 28 August 2005 07:28 am, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 01:59 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > On Saturday 27 August 2005 03:38 pm, Martin Sch

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-28 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 12:50 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 28 August 2005 07:28 am, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 01:59 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Saturday 27 August 2005 03:38 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 15:11 -0400, Mike Frysi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 28 August 2005 07:28 am, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 01:59 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 27 August 2005 03:38 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 15:11 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > On Saturday 27 August 2005 02:58 pm, Martin S

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-28 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 01:59 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 27 August 2005 03:38 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 15:11 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Saturday 27 August 2005 02:58 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > > > Which reminds me .. anybody going to scream

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 27 August 2005 03:38 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 15:11 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 27 August 2005 02:58 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > > Which reminds me .. anybody going to scream if I update elibtoolize() > > > to be able to check if it was al

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 15:11 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 27 August 2005 02:58 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 14:37 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Saturday 27 August 2005 08:00 am, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > > > eautoreconf() { > > > > lo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 27 August 2005 02:58 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 14:37 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 27 August 2005 08:00 am, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > > eautoreconf() { > > > local aclocal_opts > > > > > > [[ -n ${M4DIR} ]] && aclocal_o

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 14:37 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 27 August 2005 08:00 am, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > eautoreconf() { > > local aclocal_opts > > > > [[ -n ${M4DIR} ]] && aclocal_opts="-I ${M4DIR}" > > > > eaclocal $aclocal_opts > > eaut

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 27 August 2005 08:00 am, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > eautoreconf() { > local aclocal_opts > > [[ -n ${M4DIR} ]] && aclocal_opts="-I ${M4DIR}" > > eaclocal $aclocal_opts > eautoconf > eautoheader > eautomake > gnuconfig_updat

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 17:51 +0200, Maurice van der Pot wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:24:40PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > I still think a autoreconf is usually enough, except for cases where > > that do not work, > > And what is "not work" in this case? > - fails with an error so it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 27 August 2005 18:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > The circular autothing <-> wrapper dependency will be phased out at > some point in the future once all auto* deps properly specify versions. > The aim is to remove the need to install certain obscure auto* slots > that are becoming rarer a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:05:19 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Saturday 27 August 2005 17:53, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > I don't like it. It removes the ability to DEPEND (which you spelt | > wrong, btw) upon the correct auto* version. | Yeah I know I typoed. | About

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 27 August 2005 17:53, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > I don't like it. It removes the ability to DEPEND (which you spelt > wrong, btw) upon the correct auto* version. Yeah I know I typoed. About the version.. well you just can't depend upon a specified version anyway. When you depend on whate

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:00:06 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Attached there's an "autotools" eclass, it's basically a way to give | more information to the user while providing an epatch-like die | message. the eauto* calls are directly calls to the original command,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Maurice van der Pot
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:24:40PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > I still think a autoreconf is usually enough, except for cases where > that do not work, And what is "not work" in this case? - fails with an error so it's impossible to miss as a dev, or - fails to do things properly, causing s

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 16:24 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 14:00 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > I was wondering last night with az about the handling of autotools. > > They not always require to be re-run by scratch, but when you have to run > > aclocal you usu

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 14:00 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > I was wondering last night with az about the handling of autotools. > They not always require to be re-run by scratch, but when you have to run > aclocal you usually have to run everything after that. > Every ebuild handles them

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass

2005-08-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
I was wondering last night with az about the handling of autotools. They not always require to be re-run by scratch, but when you have to run aclocal you usually have to run everything after that. Every ebuild handles them in a different way, some ebuilds run them in a && list and then || die, ot