-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 George Shapovalov wrote: > Sunday, 17. June 2007, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) Ви написали: >> I've encountered a few cases where the build process requires building and >> installing something and then using that to build something else. Is there >> a standard way to do this? > I'd say - split the package in two (or how many pieces there are). Such > procedure implies that the parts are already well isolated, so the split > should not be that hard to do. Trying to force it "in one go" is not trivial > usually, unless what you are talking about is some bootstrap procedure. > However in that case there should be a certain way of "proper bootstrapping" > for the package described in its install docs. > > George
Splitting the package is a good idea indeed. If it is needed a bootstrapping , you could build a binary version of the necessary components of the package, that's what we do with ghc and many of the languages packages inside dev-lang. Regards, - -- Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org" Gentoo Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGdbYfaTNpke9pJcURAmm6AKCMZQZC6tvFbgHu9dUb0c8ahpQfIgCgiLMU YnKpHz22OvjdyYLlF8l7+9k= =99fq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
