Re: [gentoo-dev] Build system output verbosity, e.g. cmake

2010-02-22 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Sonntag, den 21.02.2010, 19:36 +0100 schrieb Fabian Groffen: Hi all, Inspired by the recent poppler move from autoconf to cmake for its build system, the following. Given that poppler didn't compile on at least two arches, I found that cmake is pretty much terse in its output,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New eclass for x11 packages

2010-02-22 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Hi, we prepared new eclass for x11 packages that should be used as replacement for x-modular.eclass. Prefix support done. There's one thing I don't find addressed yet: When some patch[1] necessary for some (prefix-) platform has to touch configure.ac or Makefile.am,

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-news repository

2010-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Markos Chandras wrote: On Thursday 08 October 2009 13:57:40 Alex Alexander wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:08, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: Some devs have complained about the directory structure in the gentoo-news being too complicated. News item files are

Re: [gentoo-dev] The importance of test suites

2010-02-22 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 2/21/10 10:11 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 2/21/10 5:08 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: I have one simple request. When you make a non-trivial change to an ebuild - a patch, a version bump, anything that can effect the behaviour of the package - please run the test suite. Yeah, on my dev box I

Re: [gentoo-dev] The importance of test suites

2010-02-22 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le dimanche 21 février 2010 à 10:53 +0100, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. a écrit : On 2/21/10 10:40 AM, Thilo Bangert wrote: Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org said: By the way, for packages that fail the test suite and refuse to disable it, I change the env locally so that FEATURES=-test (via

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New eclass for x11 packages

2010-02-22 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 22.2.2010 11:50, Michael Haubenwallner napsal(a): PS: Just a suggestion what an ebuild could do in this case: src_prepare() { xorg-2_src_prepare --force-eautoreconf } SNAPSHOT=yes xorg-2_src_prepare ^ this does not fit your needs? It

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending mask of Qt3 and MythTV

2010-02-22 Thread Richard Freeman
On 02/22/2010 12:25 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: If no action is taken soon, we see no other way than to protect the users by masking the complete mythtv package. We hope this won't be necessary. Agreed none of the options are nice. The mythtv wiki isn't a bad resource, how about this for a news

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New eclass for x11 packages

2010-02-22 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Dne 22.2.2010 11:50, Michael Haubenwallner napsal(a): PS: Just a suggestion what an ebuild could do in this case: src_prepare() { xorg-2_src_prepare --force-eautoreconf } SNAPSHOT=yes xorg-2_src_prepare ^ this does not fit your needs? It does exactly what you

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New eclass for x11 packages

2010-02-22 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 22.2.2010 16:50, Michael Haubenwallner napsal(a): Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Dne 22.2.2010 11:50, Michael Haubenwallner napsal(a): PS: Just a suggestion what an ebuild could do in this case: src_prepare() { xorg-2_src_prepare

Re: [gentoo-dev] The importance of test suites

2010-02-22 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 2/22/10 2:01 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: Le dimanche 21 février 2010 à 10:53 +0100, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. a écrit : $ tree /etc/portage/env /etc/portage/env |-- app-portage | `-- portage-utils.env |-- dev-libs | |-- boost.env | `-- libevent.env |-- dev-python | `-- pygtk.env

[gentoo-dev] upcoming problem? new-style virtuals and USE deps

2010-02-22 Thread Robin H. Johnson
So I've started to see the proliferation of manual || structures for USE deps, where virtuals would normally be used, but it seems that either USE deps from the virtuals aren't propogated down to the packages themselves, or developers aren't aware of said propagation. DEPEND=... || (

Re: [gentoo-dev] upcoming problem? new-style virtuals and USE deps

2010-02-22 Thread Zac Medico
On 02/22/2010 10:46 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: So I've started to see the proliferation of manual || structures for USE deps, where virtuals would normally be used, but it seems that either USE deps from the virtuals aren't propogated down to the packages themselves, or developers aren't

[gentoo-dev] Re: The importance of test suites

2010-02-22 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:11:25 +0100 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 2/21/10 5:08 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: I have one simple request. When you make a non-trivial change to an ebuild - a patch, a version bump, anything that can effect the behaviour of the package - please