[Linuxwacom-devel] linuxwacom RPM first attempt

[Huw L. <hu...@mo...>]

Being in the middle of a migration from redhat7.2 to fedora1 I decided it was
finally time to start playing with the new wacom drivers. I'd just like to
take the opportunity to say thankyou to everyone, xsetwacom and wacomcpl will
make my life massively easier.

To make installation easier I've started building some linuxwacom RPMS

ftp://ftp.moving-picture.com/pub/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-0.6.3-2mpc.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.moving-picture.com/pub/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-0.6.3-2mpc.src.rpm

At the moment these are at the stage of "they work for me" but there are a
number of issues outstanding.

1) I've had to patch some of the Makefile.in and Makefile.am so that the
install scripts place files into the RPM BuildRoot rather than under /usr.
At the moment I'm hard-coding the BuildRoot e.g.

+++ linuxwacom-0.6.3/src/Makefile.in
-x86moduledir = /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input
+x86moduledir = /var/tmp/linuxwacom-0.6.3/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input

the same goes for tcllibdir and cpldir. I can't work out how to wrangle these
files so that they are in a form that RPM can work its nefarious magic on.

for example the Makefile in src/wacomxi has the following line
tcllibdir = /usr/lib/TkXInput

I'm pretty sure that if that read 
tcllibdir = $(libdir)/TkXinput

then the RPM build process would automatically put these files into the
BuildRoot. Anyway hard-coding the BuildRoot is a bad thing and I need to work
out a way around it.

2)Have I got all the files?
rpm -ql linuxwacom
 
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/wacom_drv.o
/usr/bin/wacdump
/usr/bin/wacomcpl
/usr/bin/wacomcpl-exec
/usr/bin/xidump
/usr/bin/xsetwacom
/usr/include/wacomcfg
/usr/include/wacomcfg/wacomcfg.h
/usr/lib/TkXInput/libwacomxi.a
/usr/lib/TkXInput/libwacomxi.la
/usr/lib/TkXInput/libwacomxi.so
/usr/lib/TkXInput/libwacomxi.so.0
/usr/lib/TkXInput/libwacomxi.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/TkXInput/pkgIndex.tcl
/usr/lib/libwacomcfg.a
/usr/lib/libwacomcfg.la
/usr/lib/libwacomcfg.so
/usr/lib/libwacomcfg.so.0
/usr/lib/libwacomcfg.so.0.0.1
/usr/share/docs/linuxwacom-0.6.3/docs.html
/usr/share/docs/linuxwacom-0.6.3/docs_files/null.gif
/usr/share/docs/linuxwacom-0.6.3/docs_files/sflogo.png

3)conflicts with XFree86

obviously /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/wacom_drv.o belongs to XFree86 so you
to do a rpm -i --force to get the linuxacom RPM to install. I'm going to get
around that here by rebuilding our XFree86 RPM without wacom_drv.o but there
must be a better way.

4)only tested on Fedora Core 1 

I'll be very suprised if it works on any other distribution.


Thanks,
Huw


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