eapi in ebuild

[honeymak]

EAPI=8 vs EAPI="8"

any difference in this??
will this trigger any bugs??

[Hu]

Gentoo ebuilds are parsed as bash, so no, there is no practical difference in this case. It's possible some external tool tried to implement its own parser for ebuilds, and did an incomplete job, but I am not aware of any tools which could not handle this.

Why do you ask?

[honeymak]

would you pls try emerge dev-db/cdb

its ebuild is EAPI="8" but said some error msg
i just don't understand
currently this thing is part of php use flag 'cdb' , i mean no other stuff requires this pkg
but just its error msg i can't understand

[Hu]

emerge --pretend --verbose dev-db/cdb seems fine here. You have been here long enough that I should not need to remind you of good troubleshooting practice, but I will: if you have a problem, post the output that shows the problem. I cannot explain to you an error message that I cannot see.

[honeymak]

oooooooooops
sorry

i guess i mixed up something

pls kill this thread instead
i asked the wrong thing