Below is a patch that brings the spec in line with common sense. Ulrich
>From 34023bdee8fb9b60e6a91e1f340bef5c97f07e05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulrich=20M=C3=BCller?= <u...@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:59:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] econf arguments override default options. This matches long-time Portage behaviour, and for later added options like --disable-dependency-tracking it follows the clarification given here: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_0189c554085ac8352b5a2e05647a1d97.xml See also bug 406117. --- pkg-mgr-commands.tex | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pkg-mgr-commands.tex b/pkg-mgr-commands.tex index aa0c873..ed15ad8 100644 --- a/pkg-mgr-commands.tex +++ b/pkg-mgr-commands.tex @@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ has returned. \begin{description} \item[econf] Calls the program's \t{./configure} script. This is designed to work with GNU Autoconf-generated scripts. Any additional parameters passed to \t{econf} are passed directly - to \t{./configure}. \t{econf} will look in the current working directory for a configure script + to \t{./configure} and override any of the default options below. + \t{econf} will look in the current working directory for a configure script unless the \t{ECONF\_SOURCE} environment variable is set, in which case it is taken to be the directory containing it. \t{econf} must pass the following options to the configure script: -- 1.8.1.5
