Attention robbat2 or other Gentoo wizards

[unixronin]

Once I get my Gentoo install working happily, I suppose I'm going to need to make ebuilds for several packages I use that don't now have any.  These include my favorite programming editor, Xcoral, and my multithreaded Perl ICB client, ICBM.

Now, there's a problem with this.  It's easy to make one package dependent on another package.  However, ICBM will not work unless Perl is built with ithreads support, and, for reasons that utterly and completely baffle and mystify me, to the best of my knowledge no OS or Linux distribution ships Perl by default with ithreads enabled.

So the question this raises is, is there any way to specify in an ebuild, "This package ICBM requires package dev-lang/perl, and requires that dev-lang/perl be built with USE=ithreads"?

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Cool. :) About how far out is portage 2.2? Is it available unstable yet?