Re: [Ming-dev] Making Ming package

[strk <st...@ke...>]

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:42:03PM +0900, Motoi Washida wrote:
> 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.

LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib should definitely work. If it doesn't patch is accepted.
(probably Makefile.config needs using += when setting LDFLAGS if it
 doesn't work).

DESTDIR should be --prefix=, agains should work already - patch welcome
otherwise.

About packaging, I think we can make an effort toward a release, but
the code under utils/ is still unstable. Maybe I did the wrong thing 
getting the patches from Stuart as he's not finding time to fixing
things up. He did a good job reducing the codebase but we currently 
don't have a listswf working the way it did before (listing tags
instead of decompiling). Decompile has always been unstable, but
listing tags worked fine... I think this is one of the things to
fix before release.

--strk;

> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Motoi Washida
> 
> 
> 
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