Re: [Ming-dev] Making Ming package

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

On 2005/05/02, at 18:26, strk wrote:

> 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).
Utils/Makefile uses "LDFLAGS += -L.. -lming $(LIBS)", but if I set 
LDFLAGS=-L/sw, /sw/lib/libming.dylib is used to build executables.

> DESTDIR should be --prefix=, agains should work already - patch welcome
> otherwise.
I think DESTDIR should be different from --prefix. This is because 
prefix is not only used when copying files, but when building shared 
libraries on some systems (you know, one of them is Darwin :) ) to 
specify directory where the library is really installed.

For example, if you set prefix to /sw and make with option like 
DESTDIR=/sw/src/root-ming-0.3-1, files are copied as such as 
/sw/src/root-ming-0.3-1/sw/lib/libming-0.3.0.dylib and 
/sw/src/root-ming-0.3.1/sw/bin/swftophp2. But swftophp2 tries to load 
Ming library from /sw/lib/libming-0.3.0.dylib.

Maybe it is enough if I modify linker options to build shared library, 
but I think setting DESTDIR and LDFLAGS like above one is supported by 
many projects.

> 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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Motoi Washida