PORTABILITY.ECLASS

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Updated: Oct 2024
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NAME

portability.eclass - This eclass is created to avoid using non-portable GNUisms inside ebuilds

SUPPORTED EAPIS

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FUNCTIONS

treecopy <orig1> [orig2 orig3 ....] <dest>

mimic cp --parents copy, but working on BSD userland as well

seq [min] <max> [step]

compatibility function that mimes seq command if not available

Return value: sequence from min to max regardless of seq command being present on system

dlopen_lib

Gets the linker flag to link to dlopen() function

Return value: linker flag if needed

get_bmake

Gets the name of the BSD-ish make command (bmake from NetBSD)

This will return make (provided by system packages) for BSD userlands, or bsdmake for Darwin userlands and pmake for the rest of userlands, both of which are provided by dev-build/pmake package.

Note: the bsdmake for Darwin userland is with compatibility with MacOSX default name.

Return value: system version of make

get_mounts

Portable method of getting mount names and points. Returns as "point node fs options" Remember to convert 040 back to a space.

Return value: table of mounts in form "point node fs opts"

AUTHORS

Diego Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org>

MAINTAINERS

base-system@gentoo.org

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via https://bugs.gentoo.org/

FILES

portability.eclass

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