first you need to make an overlay directory on portage
mkdir -p /usr/local/portage && echo "PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage" >> /etc/make.conf
now we need to create the directory hierarchy for the ebuild. I put it on dev-util
cd /usr/local/portage
mkdir dev-util
mkdir dev-util/codeblocks
mkdir dev-util/codeblocks/files
now we need to download the ebuild and the corresponding patch from bugs.gentoo.org
ebuild http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=65194
patch http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=65195
move the ebuild to /usr/local/portage/dev-util/codeblocks and move the patch to /usr/local/portage/dev-util/codeblocks/file
now we need to download the files
cd /usr/local/portage/dev-util/codeblocks
ebuild codeblock-1.0_rc1.ebuild digest
emerge codeblocks
localhost codeblocks # ebuild codeblock-1.0_rc1.ebuild digest
!!! doebuild: codeblock-1.0_rc1.ebuild not found for digest
The file I downloaded from http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,1194.0.html has filename codeblocks-1.0_rc2.ebuild instead of rc1...
# ebuild codeblock-1.0_rc2.ebuild digest
Heh, duh. :)
But another typo there, for the copy/pasters among us the exact command was
ebuild codeblocks-1.0_rc2.ebuild digest
And with this I've had a couple further issues.
First, I had to add dev-util/codeblocks to my /etc/portage/package.keywords file.
Second, I got an emerge error:
make[5]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/codeblocks-1.0_rc2/work/codeblocks-1.0rc2/src/sdk/resources'
PWD=`pwd` cd . && zip -j /var/tmp/portage/codeblocks-1.0_rc2/work/codeblocks-1.0rc2/src/sdk/resources/manager_resources.zip *.xrc images/*.png > /dev/null
/bin/sh: zip: command not found
I didn't have zip installed and had to emerge app-arch/zip to get past that. Where might this be reported to add that as a dependency in the codeblocks ebuild??
Third, after emerging zip, I get another error:
make[5]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/codeblocks-1.0_rc2/work/codeblocks-1.0rc2/src/plugins/astyle'
/bin/sh ../../../mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/portage/codeblocks-1.0_rc2/image/usr/lib64
/bin/sh ../../../libtool --mode=install /bin/install -c libastyle.la /var/tmp/portage/codeblocks-1.0_rc2/image/usr/lib64/libastyle.la
libtool: install: error: cannot install `libastyle.la' to a directory not ending in /usr/share/codeblocks/plugins
make[5]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
Which I haven't outsmarted yet.
Sorry for sounding like a dope, but I'm not a linux developer, and I'm not sure what would have been intended there. I wouldn't mind learning, but my main reason for looking at Code::Blocks is that I'm getting a hardware ICE probe that can be used via gdb and ddd for my target platform, instead of having to buy fancy expensive software environments required for the other ICE probe vendors' products. Someone pointed me here to see if this IDE would be suitable for my learning and firmware debug interface needs.