On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:14:55PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > Sven Wegener wrote: [Wed Jul 06 2005, 08:04:04PM EDT] > > I'm writing this mail to bring you a thought we had over on freenode > > in the #gentoo-portage channel. We would like to split up > > src_compile. The new src_configure should just do the econf part and > > src_compile should do the emake part. This represents the general > > 3-step[1] installation in a much better way. > > This would be great in that it would be possible to do: > > ebuild blah.ebuild configure > > then change to the directory and work on it. But the other side of > the coin is that you're talking about a LOT of ebuild changes, right?
Yes, but please see my EBUILD_FORMAT mail on how we'll provide backward compatibility. It boils down to set EBUILD_FORMAT to the right value and portage knows that the ebuild uses src_configure in addition to src_compile. As we need to touch ebuilds for the src_configure change we can also add the EBUILD_FORMAT variable in one go. If EBUILD_FORMAT is unset, just use old behaviour. Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/
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