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Bug 865 - use of variables for ./configure
Summary: use of variables for ./configure
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-02-26 11:29 UTC by Spider
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:22 UTC (History)
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Description Spider 2002-02-26 11:29:28 UTC
Since a lot of the .ebuilds (all?) use statically encoded path's for ./configure
(--prefix, --localstatedir --datadir etc. etc.) I wondered if it would be doable
/ preferrable to use a variable (in make.conf?) for each of theese so we get
consistency across all ebuilds, and reduce the risk of mistakes with the
packages getting installed into the "wrong place" . that way all ebuilds per
default would have the "right" path.
Any packages that need special treatment can go on as before.
Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-03-15 01:06:44 UTC
I think we have something like this since we have a default ./configure in
ebuild.sh.  See "econf" in /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh