[Cgdb-devel] [ cgdb-Bugs-870701 ] Makefile paths

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Bugs item #870701, was opened at 2004-01-04 23:48
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Category: CGDB
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Yaakov Selkowitz (yselkowitz)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Makefile paths

Initial Comment:
I am attempting to build and package CGDB for Cygwin. 
The program builds and runs seemingly fine (I haven't
done extensive testing though).  However upon trying to
package it I ran into a few problems.

Cygwin packaging is usually done through a build
script, which makes a .build directory where everything
that is created through the configure and make process
is put, keeping the original source dir clean.  However
the Makefiles expect that the program is being built in
the source directories, and hence are not found.

The problem manifests itself when building the
executables by linking to the libraries which were
previously built.  These should be linked with relative
paths, allowing for the external build dir (this is how
I've seen many programs work).  For example,
cgdb-0.4.0/cgdb/src/Makefile.in should be patched so:

cgdb_LDFLAGS = --L$(top_srcdir)/various/util/src +-L../../various/util/src --L$(top_srcdir)/various/adt/src +-L../../various/adt/src --L$(top_srcdir)/various/input/src +-L../../various/input/src --L$(top_srcdir)/various/rlctx/src +-L../../various/rlctx/src --L$(top_srcdir)/tgdb/tgdb-base/src +-L../../tgdb/tgdb-base/src --L$(top_srcdir)/tgdb/annotate-two/src +-L../../tgdb/annotate-two/src --L$(top_srcdir)/cgdb/tokenizer/src +-L../tokenizer/src --L$(top_srcdir)/tgdb/gdbmi/src
+-L../../tgdb/gdbmi/src

And so on for similar cases in *that* file and every
other Makefile.in that links to the libraries created
earlier in the make process.

Also, the build script installs to a .inst directory
from which the bin tarball is made, using 'make install
DESTDIR=${instdir}' (instdir is defined in the script).
 When doing so I got the following result:

 
/home/Yaakov/devel/testing/cgdb/cgdb-0.4.0/progs/getch_driver.exe
 
/home/Yaakov/devel/testing/cgdb/cgdb-0.4.0/progs/input_driver.exe
 
/home/Yaakov/devel/testing/cgdb/cgdb-0.4.0/progs/rlctx_driver.exe
 
/home/Yaakov/devel/testing/cgdb/cgdb-0.4.0/progs/tgdb_driver.exe
 
/home/Yaakov/devel/testing/cgdb/cgdb-0.4.0/progs/tokenizer_driver.exe
  /usr/bin/cgdb.exe
  /usr/share/doc/cgdb-0.4.0/AUTHORS
  /usr/share/doc/cgdb-0.4.0/ChangeLog
  /usr/share/doc/cgdb-0.4.0/COPYING
  /usr/share/doc/cgdb-0.4.0/INSTALL
  /usr/share/doc/cgdb-0.4.0/NEWS
  /usr/share/doc/cgdb-0.4.0/README

I don't understand why the progs/*_driver.exe files are
supposed to go in the source directory.  Are these
needed by CGDB to run?  Are they meant as examples?  In
either case this is something that needs to be fixed in
the Makefile.in's as well.

If there is anything I can do to help you fix these
issues I will try to assist.  Thank you for your work
on this project.

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