Re: [Ming-dev] Making Ming package

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

On 2005/05/03, at 0:38, strk wrote:

> 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
Sorry, they should be "CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include" and "LDFLAGS=-L/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.
When I run configure and make like this:
$ ./configure --prefix=/sw CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib
$ make

I want to use files such as /sw/lib/libpng.dylib /sw/lib/libgif.dylib 
and /sw/include/png.h if exist.

I can specify those files by setting LDFLAGS and CFLAGS to make 
options, but building executables of util/ fails because it tries to 
find /sw/lib/libming.dylib before ../libming.dylib. And I think setting 
options such as LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS as configure options is good idea 
because configure can check where to find those files.

>>> 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.
Thanks. I attached my patch to support DESTDIR.

I think recent Perl and Ruby module to make Makefiles (maybe 
ExtUtils::MakeMaker and mkmf) support DESTDIR, and python seems to 
support the same feature by setting --root option. So I don't have to 
modify those files, although I can't build PHP, Ruby and TCL wrapper 
for now. :(

>
> --strk;
>
>
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Motoi Washida