Bugday 2021-02-06

[[Article description::<span>Bugday focus: <span style="color:#FE5000">Installation Manual</span>]]

Topic 1: Respect toolchain variables - CC/CXX/CFLAGS/LDFLAGS/etc.

A lot of the ebuilds use incorrect toolchain variables causing esoteric problems, such as for cross-compiling, prefixes, LTO profiling, per-package workarounds, among many others.

These can generally be fixed by exporting the toolchain variables during the src_configure using the tc-export function from the toolchain-funcs.eclass.

Most of the bugs should be of this kind, with a quick 3 line diff. For more complicated bugs, please ask for assistance on #gentoo-bugday on freenode.

Open bugs for direct toolchain calls - https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=direct%20calls
Open bugs for not respecting flags - https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=does%20not%20respect

Topic 2: Check the installation manual

Search and fix bugs in the installation manual.

I still do not know how to start. Could you provide an example workflow?

Larry wants to fix one of his favourite packages.

• Larry picks one package in bug #705764
• Larry adds the bug number to the "looking at" column in his row in the Activity Tracker (and adds a row for himself if one does not already exist) so others can see this bug is being worked on
• net-misc/networkmanager: Fails to compile with -fno-common bug #706000
• check upstream - is there a fix?
• if there is, decide if a patch or a version bump makes more sense.
• download or write a patch, copy it to /etc/portage/patches and test it
• report upstream, and link the upstream bug/ticket in Gentoo's Bugzilla
• now that the task is completed, Larry should update the Activity Tracker by moving the bug number from the "looking at" column to the "completed" column

Activity tracker

See also

• Bugday — a single day each month devoted to development efforts pertaining to a certain area of the Gentoo project.