Bug 321165 – use emake to to compile single executables

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michał Górny 2010-05-23 12:03:53 UTC]

There are some packages which lack an upstream build system or the build system is unusable, thus ebuilds call the compiler directly in src_compile(). They use tc-get* from toolchain-funcs to get compiler name, and call it passing more or less appropriate flags in more or less appropriate order.

I think it would be useful though to define a common functions to call the compiler from within ebuilds to avoid the differences in accepted make.conf *FLAGS, flag passing order and overall syntax. The toolchain-funcs eclass seems the most appropriate one for that.

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-05-31 01:50:50 UTC]

Please reopen this bug report after:

1) adding examples of ebuilds that do this "manually".
2) providing an eclass patch that the ebuilds should call.
3) generating some discussion on the gentoo-dev@ mailing list about your eclass
   patch.

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2010-06-04 07:21:34 UTC]

The discussion has taken place and I've decided to withdraw my ideas in favor of using 'emake'. This bug and the list I stated [1] might be used however to transform existing CC-callers to 'emake' solution.

[1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_3d5d6138926c7611c59c77c8a10d0d26.xml

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-06-10 05:11:16 UTC]

Here come the ninjas.

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-06-10 05:12:47 UTC]

Oh, no ninjas needed....