Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools

2020-03-26 Thread Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
[2020-03-26 17:47:35+] Samuel Bernardo: > I send this email to ask you for your help for the better approach to > translate the following autoreconf command to an ebuild: > > > |autoreconf -i -f ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ > > --libexecdir=/usr/lib/snapd \ > > --with-snap-mount-dir=/var/lib/

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 12 January 2007 13:37, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > After you commit this Diego already did -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 12 January 2007 13:14, Mike Frysinger wrote: > if/when an issue comes up where someone is > inheriting autotools but they're using it conditionally, we'll revisit this seems Diego is two steps ahead ... set the vars to "none" :) -mike pgpt5VjQENLt7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-12 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/12/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2007 11:27, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > 1. Add default. we've gone this route ... if/when an issue comes up where someone is inheriting autotools but they're using it conditionally, we'll revisit this autotools.eclass: [[ -z $

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 07 January 2007 11:27, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > 1. Add default. we've gone this route ... if/when an issue comes up where someone is inheriting autotools but they're using it conditionally, we'll revisit this autotools.eclass: [[ -z ${WANT_AUTOCONF} ]] && WANT_AUTOCONF="latest" [[ -z ${WA

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-07 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/7/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:32, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:23, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > why not just get rid of the idea of "latest" ? is there a scenario where > > autotools would be inherited but not

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:32, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:23, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > why not just get rid of the idea of "latest" ?  is there a scenario where > > autotools would be inherited but not actually used/added to DEPEND ?  i > > guess that's w

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:23, Mike Frysinger wrote: > why not just get rid of the idea of "latest" ?  is there a scenario where > autotools would be inherited but not actually used/added to DEPEND ?  i > guess that's what this all comes down to really ... If autotools were to be inherited by a

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:00, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 18:25, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > the reason was so in the *eclass* you could translate latest to "1.10 > > 1.9" and drop the need of executing that helper function in local scope > > Right, but I thoug

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 06 January 2007 18:25, Mike Frysinger wrote: > the reason was so in the *eclass* you could translate latest to "1.10 1.9" > and drop the need of executing that helper function in local scope Right, but I thought the other one, too.. Well, I suppose it would do little harm at this point

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 06 January 2007 11:05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:42, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > what does it matter if all of the ebuilds declare latest or the eclass > > declares latest ? > > Weren't we going to allow declaring "1.10 1.9" soon, so that we could s

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:42, Mike Frysinger wrote: > what does it matter if all of the ebuilds declare latest or the eclass > declares latest ? Weren't we going to allow declaring "1.10 1.9" soon, so that we could stop using "latest" ? -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameey

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 06 January 2007 10:22, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 11:10, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > Is there any reason why not setting "latest" as default for WANT_AUTO* > > variables? > > Because then stuff will "magically" work in stable, and break in ~arch, and > yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 06 January 2007 09:47, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 06 January 2007 05:10, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > Is there any reason why not setting "latest" as default for > > > WANT_AUTO* variables? > > > > > > I believe that an ebuild should s

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 06 January 2007 11:10, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > Is there any reason why not setting "latest" as default for WANT_AUTO* > variables? Because then stuff will "magically" work in stable, and break in ~arch, and you won't know why it's happening. Instead if you follow the procedure (set the

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/6/07, Kevin F. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not sure. Would we run the risk that working ebuilds would start to fail when newer autotools versions arrive? So what do you suggest of putting? Current revision? And we can drop the "latest" support... right? But then we should handle old

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 05:21:48 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 05:10, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > Is there any reason why not setting "latest" as default for > > WANT_AUTO* variables? > > > > I believe that an ebuild should set these variables only if there i

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 06 January 2007 05:10, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > Is there any reason why not setting "latest" as default for WANT_AUTO* > variables? > > I believe that an ebuild should set these variables only if there is > some exception. that seems like a not-too-shabby idea actually -mike pgp7qE8JnVb

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools - 'make' infinite loop

2006-07-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 22:05, Marcus Furlong wrote: > Running 'configure' goes fine, but running 'make' just keeps running > configure over and over. It's commonly caused when the timestamp of configure and the sources for configure are messed up. Make sure no file has modification time in the