Bug 380389

Summary:	ebuild skips EAPI unsupported phases silently
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Richard <shiningarcanine>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	jer
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/eapi/index.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Richard 2011-08-23 15:40:50 UTC

The following will unpack and apply patches, but it won't run the configure script:

ebuild `equery which app-shells/bash-4.2_p10` configure

To run the configure script, I need to tell ebuild to compile bash, rather than to configure bash. These should be separate stages.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-08-25 14:15:40 UTC

The ebuild has EAPI=1 so src_configure is not a valid build phase and is ignored, which is fine. The problem you are looking at is that ebuild(1) should probably fail when an invalid phase is called.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-08-26 03:07:11 UTC

ebuild does abort for generally invalid phases (try "ebuild ... foo"), but it silently skips invalid ones based on the active EAPI