On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 04:13:34PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:19:55 -0300, Matias Grana wrote: > > > I'm trying to compile vim with +clipboard support. One can do this by > > passing --enable-clipboard to configure. There's no USE flag for this > > feature. After some research, I've learned that the way to do this is to > > configure the EXTRA_ECONF variable. Now the question is: is there a > > file to put these variables in? Something like /etc/portage/package.use > > but for econfs? > > You can set variables for individual ebuilds using /etc/portage/bashrc. > save the attached file as /etc/portage/bashrc then do > > mkdir -p /etc/portage/env.d/app-editors > echo >>/etc/portage/env.d/app-editors/vim 'EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-clipboard"' > > You can use this to set variables, or override default settings, for any > package. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
Nice! thanks so much; maybe I'll try this next time. It seems that this time I've missed some doc: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:28:54PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:19:55 -0300 Matias Grana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | I'm trying to compile vim with +clipboard support. One can do this > | by passing --enable-clipboard to configure. There's no USE flag for > | this feature. > > Incorrect. USE="vim-with-x". > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) > Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org > Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm > Nicer! So this is what vim-with-x stand for! I saw the flag, but thought that it would pull down gvim, which I already have in my world. Now: this pops up a second question: where can we see the exact efect of USE flags on packages? For instance: what other features 'vim-with-x' will enable? Matias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
