Re: [Ming-dev] Making Ming package

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

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:55:36PM +0900, Motoi Washida wrote:
> 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.

Please suggest the way you think it *should* work, not the way
it *does* work now.

> >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.

Motoi, I'm afraid I'm not able to follow up on this, but I can just
trust you and invite to send a patch. In case it won't work for me
I'll let you know. If you're sure other projects are using these
variables I can trust them more.

--strk;