Bug 224917 – ESVN_BOOTSTRAP and EGIT_BOOTSTRAP seem to suggest using bootstrap/autogen scripts, should launch a QA warning

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2008-06-04 17:50:45 UTC]

The ESVN_BOOTSTRAP and EGIT_BOOTSTRAP variables seems to be used only to call boostrap/autogen scripts (instead of using eautoreconf).

Considering that boostrap/autogen scripts are usually a very nasty idea, I'd like for use of the two variable to raise a QA Warning.

If further steps are needed after the source fetching through subversion/git, it should happen in src_unpack as we do for every other thing in other ebuilds and eclasses.

(Similarly, ESVN_PATCHES and EGIT_PATCHES should be deprecated too, if we really want to make that change, we could just let subversion and git eclasses inherit base.eclass and use the already-present PATCHES array, instead of reinventing the wheel).

[Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2008-06-04 18:04:46 UTC]

You're assuming that bootstrap scripts can be replaced by calling eautoreconf. This often isn't the case.

[Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2008-06-04 18:08:43 UTC]

No I'm not.

> If further steps are needed after the source fetching through subversion/git,
> it should happen in src_unpack as we do for every other thing in other ebuilds
> and eclasses.

[Comment 3 Ciaran McCreesh 2008-06-04 18:10:15 UTC]

Sure. And that thing is often "run the autogen / bootstrap" script. So you might as well just use the *_BOOTSTRAP var.

[Comment 4 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2010-10-19 20:29:50 UTC]

Any input from anyone on how they would like to proceed with this bug?  Its been stalled for quite some time now.