Re: [Ming-dev] Making Ming package

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

Sorry, I'm out of time, ping me somewhen in the future.
--strk;

On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:20:28AM +0900, Motoi Washida wrote:
> 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;
> >
> >
> --
> Motoi Washida
> 


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