Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass

2012-11-28 Thread justin
On 29/11/12 02:14, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 28 November 2012 16:49:14 Justin wrote: >> Problem: >> Some packages aren't lucky and their buildsystem doesn't create >> pkg-config files out of the box. >> >> Solution: >> Create them by hand. > > i agree this is a problem. but i think the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass

2012-11-28 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le mercredi 28 novembre 2012 à 22:49 +0100, Justin a écrit : > Solution: > Create them by hand. The solution is to tell *upstream* how to build and ship .pc files with their build system. If we start shipping .pc files no one else has, projects that use such libraries will have only 2 choices:

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2012-11-28 Thread Walter Dnes
> The in-kernel GMA500 driver is being used with xf86-video-modesetting and it > has some advantages over xf86-video-fbdev (like xrandr 1.2 so you can > configure the resolution of your external monitor). > > I have seen occasional reports from users that the modesetting driver > fails to detect t

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass

2012-11-28 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
hasufell schrieb: >> create_pkgconfig() > > this sounds like a very bad idea. > > pkgconfig files are common interfaces and should almost never be > created/modified/renamed anywhere except upstream. X11 team considered doing exactly that once after the nouveau API break in libdrm-2.4.33, split

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass

2012-11-28 Thread Duncan
Richard Yao posted on Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:26:00 -0500 as excerpted: > On 11/28/2012 05:21 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:49:14 +0100 Justin wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> and another one. >>> >>> Problem: >>> Some packages aren't lucky and their buildsystem doesn't create >>> pkg-c

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass

2012-11-28 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/28/2012 05:21 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:49:14 +0100 > Justin wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> and another one. >> >> Problem: >> Some packages aren't lucky and their buildsystem doesn't create >> pkg-config files out of the box. >> >> Solution: >> Create them by hand. > > Resul

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass

2012-11-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 28 November 2012 16:49:14 Justin wrote: > Problem: > Some packages aren't lucky and their buildsystem doesn't create > pkg-config files out of the box. > > Solution: > Create them by hand. i agree this is a problem. but i think the only real place to fix this is in the upstream pac

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2012-11-28 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Walter Dnes schrieb: >> Telling people to use xf86-video-fbdev for Poulsbo would be bad >> advice, they should use xf86-video-modesetting. > Since > the "Intel GMA5/600 KMS Framebuffer" option is selected, xf86-video-fbdev > *MUST* be used as the video driver. I did try xf86-video-modesetting, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass

2012-11-28 Thread Christoph Junghans
2012/11/28 Justin : > Hi, > > and another one. > > Problem: > Some packages aren't lucky and their buildsystem doesn't create > pkg-config files out of the box. > > Solution: > Create them by hand. > > Eclass: > Simplifies this by providing a general function for that. > > Example: > https://github

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass

2012-11-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:49:14 +0100 Justin wrote: > Hi, > > and another one. > > Problem: > Some packages aren't lucky and their buildsystem doesn't create > pkg-config files out of the box. > > Solution: > Create them by hand. Result: packages which fail to build on distributions other than G

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass

2012-11-28 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > create_pkgconfig() this sounds like a very bad idea. pkgconfig files are common interfaces and should almost never be created/modified/renamed anywhere except upstream. debian packagers are already messing up pkgconfig files randomly see http://bu

[gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass

2012-11-28 Thread Justin
Hi, and another one. Problem: Some packages aren't lucky and their buildsystem doesn't create pkg-config files out of the box. Solution: Create them by hand. Eclass: Simplifies this by providing a general function for that. Example: https://github.com/gentoo-science/sci/blob/pkg-config/sci-lib

Re: [gentoo-dev] Using emerge-webrsync to simplify the handbook

2012-11-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:05:55 -0500 Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/28/2012 09:17 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Richard Yao wrote: > >> We could slightly simplify the handbook installation procedure if we > >> told people to use emerge-webrsync to fetch the initial sna

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-admin/profiler

2012-11-28 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, vivo75@gmail com wrote: >> # Sebastian Pipping (27 Nov 2012) >> # Masked for removal in 30 days. >> # Licensing issues, turned out not distributable (bug #444332) >> app-admin/profiler > uhm, maybe for licensing issues the grace period of 30 days could be > shortened (

Re: [gentoo-dev] Using emerge-webrsync to simplify the handbook

2012-11-28 Thread Matthew Thode
On 11/28/2012 09:05 AM, Richard Yao wrote: > On 11/28/2012 09:17 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Richard Yao wrote: >>> We could slightly simplify the handbook installation procedure if we >>> told people to use emerge-webrsync to fetch the initial snapshot. >> >> Usi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Using emerge-webrsync to simplify the handbook

2012-11-28 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/28/2012 09:17 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Richard Yao wrote: >> We could slightly simplify the handbook installation procedure if we >> told people to use emerge-webrsync to fetch the initial snapshot. > > Using emerge-webrsync also makes the installation pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Using emerge-webrsync to simplify the handbook

2012-11-28 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Richard Yao wrote: > We could slightly simplify the handbook installation procedure if we > told people to use emerge-webrsync to fetch the initial snapshot. Using emerge-webrsync also makes the installation process more robust, since it only requires HTTP access

[gentoo-dev] Using emerge-webrsync to simplify the handbook

2012-11-28 Thread Richard Yao
We could slightly simplify the handbook installation procedure if we told people to use emerge-webrsync to fetch the initial snapshot. What do people think? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-admin/profiler

2012-11-28 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 28/11/2012 00:04, Sebastian Pipping ha scritto: # Sebastian Pipping (27 Nov 2012) # Masked for removal in 30 days. # Licensing issues, turned out not distributable (bug #444332) app-admin/profiler uhm, maybe for licensing issues the grace period of 30 days could be shortened (not that I car

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ohloh Organizations - Gentoo Linux

2012-11-28 Thread Theo Chatzimichos
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> I haven't heard back from them, maybe you can ask them what's up. > > This has been setup (with Donnie's help): > > https://www.ohloh.net/orgs/gentoo > > I've claimed 15 of the pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass cuda.eclass

2012-11-28 Thread justin
Please review my inclusion of your suggestions. Additionally I move to src_prepare to be more binpackage compatible as things are only of interest at compile time. commit 366a690925f5cc5e4bdd2ea984d9ccca65d8f996 Author: Justin Lecher Date: Wed Nov 28 11:54:16 2012 +0100 Be bin package fri

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ohloh Organizations - Gentoo Linux

2012-11-28 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > Sure, I would like to be a manager. > > I'd like to add these as well: > https://www.ohloh.net/p/gentoo_loongson_overlay > https://www.ohloh.net/p/gentoo_catalyst They're in there already (the page only lists most active projects by default, c