Bug 139418

Summary:	Add ability to portage for wrapping configures via a $CONFIGURE variable which would enable colorization of configure scripts and to move confcache out of portage
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Tim Burrell <tim>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	masterdriverz, russ
Priority:	High	Keywords:	NeedPatch
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Diff to add ECONF_WRAPPER functionality to portage

Description Tim Burrell 2006-07-06 06:19:14 UTC

As per Marius Mauch's suggestion in Bug 43046 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43046#c25) I'm opening a new bug about adding support to portage for wrapping configure commands.

This would be similar to what exists for make commands through the use of the $MAKE variable.

My interest in getting this going is to allow colorization of configure scripts in the same way that you can do with compilations via $MAKE.

After looking through ebuild.sh it looks to me like it shouldn't be too difficult to replace the configure commands with a CONFIGURE variable, however Marius mentioned he thought support for this would also be useful in helping remove some toolchain stuff out of portage (confcache) which I know nothing about.

I would have submitted a patch with the changes I require, but I thought it's likely best to open it up to discussion first so my effort isn't wasted.

First of all is this a good idea?  What needs to happen for this feature to be most useful?

Comment 1 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-31 23:53:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 43046 ***

Comment 2 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-31 23:54:50 UTC

oops, didn't look close enough to see that this is a follow-up of the other

Comment 3 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-31 23:58:45 UTC

stupid bugzilla

Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-06-07 14:26:51 UTC

A patch would be useful.

Comment 5 Alex Elsayed 2008-03-30 23:08:19 UTC

Paludis provides the ECONF_WRAPPER variable, to be set in the bashrc, whic allows arbitrary wrapping of configure scripts. I am also attaching a patch for the ebuild.sh in portage version 2.1.4.4 which uses the same variable

Comment 6 Alex Elsayed 2008-03-30 23:09:20 UTC

Created attachment 147756 [details, diff]
Diff to add ECONF_WRAPPER functionality to portage