Cool. I've added a news flash at pike.ida.liu.se.
I haven't tried gentoo or ebuilds myself, so my feedback aren't perhaps of the best quality. Looking through the checkin it looks like the metadata.xml can have a longer description (according to the DTD). Is the ANNOUNCE file OK, or is it too long? https://pike.ida.liu.se/development/cvs/view.xml?module=Pike&file=7.5/AN...
The source should compile fine on x86,ppc,alpha,sparc,sparc64 as is. I might have misinterpreted the KEYWORDS part of the ebuild file, but to me it looks like it is marked as only working on x86.
Regarding DEPEND, there is one configure test that requires bc. But that is probably a "bug" that should be fixed in the configure test instead...
/ Martin Nilsson (ja till euro, nej till cent)
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2003-08-31 20:31: Subject: Gentoo Linux ebuilds for pike-7.4.20 available
Hello guys,
first, I am new to the list, just subscribed some hours ago. Well, I am also new to pike, I heard of pike for the first time yesterday but I have to admit that it looks really promising and I'll have a closer look at it ;)
I have committed an ebuild for pike-7.4.20 to gentoo's portage tree. Gentoo users can install it just like every other ebuild, too.
For reference, you can also take a look at it using our viewcvs: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dev-lang/pike/
This is the initial commit of a pike ebuild so I'd be warmly interested in every sucess and failure story regarding the ebuild ;-)
With your feedback I hope to steadily improve the pike ebuilds and get it into the stable tree quite soon.
-- Rainer Groesslinger http://dev.gentoo.org/~scandium/
/ Brevbäraren