521572 – media-video/xvid4conf-1.12: suspicious use of einstall

Bug 521572 - media-video/xvid4conf-1.12: suspicious use of einstall

Summary: media-video/xvid4conf-1.12: suspicious use of einstall

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal QA (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project

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Whiteboard:	suspicious-einstall
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Blocks:	suspicious-einstall
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Reported:	2014-08-29 21:05 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified:	2021-07-18 03:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Michał Górny archtester

2014-08-29 21:05:03 UTC

Please check whether the use of 'einstall' in this ebuild is actually
needed. From a quick glance at the Makefile, it seems to have proper
support for DESTDIR.

Therefore, if possible please replace the call to 'einstall' with proper
'default' or 'emake DESTDIR="${D}" install'. Thanks.

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2021-07-18 03:34:18 UTC

Obsolete, fixed some time ago: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a98cf70c310e8b824b1ffc1259056302a1732dc2