>>>>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> There are dozens of packages in app-emacs making use of this
>> feature (most of them from before my time, so don't blame me ;-) ).
>> Typically their source is a single compressed lisp file and
>> everything takes place in WORKDIR. S is not needed because of the
>> fallback.
> S="${WORKDIR}" in global scope then.
Yes, I don't doubt that the problem can be solved. ;-) Maybe we can
assign S in src_unpack in one of our eclasses.
> The fallback causes problems when there's a default src_install.
> Having a default src_install means an ebuild with a dodgy tarball
> but no functions is likely to make it all the way through past the
> install; previously it would die on the custom-written src_install.
I see.
> Note that the wording is such that this will only matter for ebuilds
> that install things. Blank ebuilds that install nothing will still
> work.
How can you know that before src_install?
Ulrich
