importare-src

This script is an extension to Paludis?' Importare? program which allows you to install software for which no package file is available. Importare simply takes the contents of a given directory and treats them as a package though. Importare-src expects a directory with package sources. It will compile them using the compiler settings specified in the Paludis configuration and then import the files which would be installed.

The source package must follow the standard conventions, i.e. have a configure script and a makefile. Importare-src calls ./configure && make && make install with a temporary directory as a prefix to install into. The contents of the temporary directory are then imported using importare.

Example invocation: importare-src fooapp-1.23/ app-misc/fooapp 1.23
The first argument is the name of the directory containing the unpacked sources, the other arguments are passed to importare.

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