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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] Re: perl-module.eclass: respect CFLAGS, LDFLAGS - please review
From:       Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net>
Date:       2014-06-23 2:24:00
Message-ID: pan$38d1e$973deae6$ca4257b5$8446895d () cox ! net
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Andreas K. Huettel posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2014 20:13:59 +0200 as excerpted:

> Offhand I don't know any way how the eclass could "know" whether a perl
> package requires C building or not. Any heuristics would be a hack at
> best. It might even be preferable to manually add some variable to 300
> packages in the ebuild (which then makes the eclass add a use-flag
> custom-cflags).
> i.e.
> 
> PERL_CFLAGS_HANDLING=yes inherit perl-module

Namespace collision issues aside, that would have been my next 
suggestion, yes.  The kde eclasses among others make extended use of this 
sort of "pre-inherit or pre-eclass-function-call declaration" solution.

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