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George Shapovalov wrote:
> Sunday, 17. June 2007, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) Ви напиÑали:
>> 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,
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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
Gentoo Linux
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