[Ming-dev] Making Ming package

[Motoi W. <a6...@h8...>]

Hi Ming developers,

I'm trying to make Ming package for Fink. Fink is software to maintain 
open source software easily on Mac OS X, like RPM, Debian package, or 
Portage of Gentoo/Linux.
   http://fink.sourceforge.net

Each Fink package is made from one package info file and one small 
patch file, if needed. The package info file contains information about 
its software, version, etc. One of the most important information is a 
process to install the software from source, such as configure options 
and make target.

At first, I thought making package from Ming 0.3 beta1, but I had to 
make a long patch. CVS version of Ming looked better, and I can install 
shared libraries now. But there is still a few problems to make a 
package:
1. Fink installs libraries on /sw/lib, and I want to use -L/sw/lib 
linker option to use /sw/lib/libpng.dylib and /sw/lib/libgif.dylib. But 
I can't find how to set such option without any patch. I'm happy if I 
can set those options by running configure like this:
$ ./configure --prefix=/sw CPPFLAGS=/sw/include LDFLAGS=/sw/lib

2. Fink does not allow installing files directly. Instead, Fink 
installs those files on a temporary directory such as 
/sw/src/root-ming-0.3-1/ and create .deb package. We can specify such a 
directory if the Makefile of the software supports running command 
like:
$ make install DESTDIR=/sw/src/root-ming-0.3-1

Any thoughts? I will write a patch if you like.

Thanks,
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Motoi Washida