Install this version:
emerge -a =dev-python/tccbox-2025.10.27
If this version is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:
autounmask =dev-python/tccbox-2025.10.27
Or alternatively:
emerge --autounmask-write -a =dev-python/tccbox-2025.10.27
# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
EAPI=8
PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..14} )
inherit python-r1
DESCRIPTION="Shim providing the tccbox Python API over system dev-lang/tcc"
HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/metab0t/tccbox"
S="${WORKDIR}"
LICENSE="LGPL-2.1+"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
RDEPEND="
${PYTHON_DEPS}
>=dev-lang/tcc-0.9.27_p20251027
"
# Upstream tccbox bundles a prebuilt TCC inside the wheel; no sdist is
# published. This shim exposes the same three-function API
# (tcc_bin_path, tcc_lib_dir, tcc_include_dir) pointing at the system
# dev-lang/tcc install instead of a bundled copy.
src_unpack() {
mkdir -p "${S}/tccbox" || die
}
src_prepare() {
default
local tccdir="/usr/$(get_libdir)/tcc"
cat > "${S}/tccbox/__init__.py" <<-EOF || die
"""tccbox shim backed by Gentoo's dev-lang/tcc install."""
import os
_TCC_BIN = "/usr/bin/tcc"
_TCC_DIST = "${tccdir}"
def tcc_bin_path():
return _TCC_BIN
def tcc_lib_dir():
return _TCC_DIST
def tcc_include_dir():
return os.path.join(_TCC_DIST, "include")
EOF
cat > "${S}/tccbox/__main__.py" <<-'EOF' || die
import os
import sys
from . import tcc_bin_path
os.execv(tcc_bin_path(), [tcc_bin_path(), *sys.argv[1:]])
EOF
}
src_install() {
python_foreach_impl python_domodule tccbox
}
>=dev-lang/tcc-0.9.27_p20251027