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

[Ronald Landheer-C. <bly...@us...>]

Can we close this item and mark it as fixed in CVS please? I've added a comment
to point the OP to the branch in CVS where these problems are solved.

rlc

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:48:38PM -0800, SourceForge.net wrote:
> 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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