Bug 865

Summary:	use of variables for ./configure
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Spider <spider.gentoo>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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