Re: [Hamlib-developer] Problems with Perl language interface ... and Debian

[Stephane F. <f8...@fr...>]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> So the FAQ would be something like:
> 
> - Where are the perl and tcl bindings?
> 
> (Does anyone know a better word for binding?)
> 
> And the answer would explain what swig is and what versions you need.
> This only relates to the CVS version of course.

Okay. Acutally, I expected to fix the installation in the coming weeks.
And fix the binding plugin names also. For this matter, I may have to
create subdirs because perl and tcl want to name it the same way
'hamlib.so'.

> Ehm, I still see perl/Makefile.PL and perl/Makefile.am, they need to
> be kicked ....

yep, but before doing that, I'd like to reuse the Makefile.PL and part
of Makefile.am to let perl handle the plugin installation directory itself.
It might change from one version of perl to another. 
Anyone has advices to how to handle the plugin name clash and the
installation destination?

 
> I couldn't resist, have fixed the debian build stuff.
> You need to 'apt-get install fakeroot debhelper dpkg-dev autoconf automake1.7 libtool doxygen'
> and then 'fakeroot debian/rules binary'.

great!
FYI, Ernie has made a .deb for 1.1.3 already, and it's in the
download page on sourceforge. I've heard Terry was about to update 
the debian unstable. That'd good to merge all the build scripts.
Note: assuming you have a tar.gz obtained by a "make dist", there
shouln't be any need for autoconf, automake1.7 and libtool. And we can
even arrange to generate doxygen/dockbook documentation at "make dist"
time (I've heard sh and hurd platforms don't have doxygen yet).
 
Thanks for the commits
Stephane