packaging and config params

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Dave Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> I'm afraid I don't quite follow you here.  What do you mean by
>> "build tree" vs. "install tree"?  Normally the build process is:
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=/sw
>
> plus the rest of the configure parameters, including --libexecdir=/sw/lib

Sure...

>> make
>
> At this point, the overrides directory gets installed in 
> /sw/lib/gnucash/ instead of the being maintained in the usual 
> location of a make (provided I'm understanding what all "fink build 
> gnucash" is supposed to accomplish -- vs. "fink install gnucash")

Um..  "make" should never touch /sw -- it shouldn't "install" anything.
Only "make install" should.  If "make" is actually touching the
install tree it's a MAJOR bug, but I doubt that's what's going on.
More likely you're not conveying to me the fink process and it's
actually doing a "make install"..

>> make install DESTDIR=/path/to/tempspace
>
> this might also be a problem, but at least I can ask a better 
> question over in the fink lists.

Perhaps I don't understand fink.  Doesn't fink build a .deb and then
install the .deb?

>> package up /path/to/tempspace
>> create install-scripts to perform operations (like gconf installations)
>>
>> I don't know what you're doing and how it differs from the above.
>
> Well, it's pretty obvious I don't know what I'm doing, either :)
>
> Thanks for the help.

You're welcome.  Good Luck,

-derek

>> -derek
>>
>> David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> writes:
>>
>>> It looks like I am going to inherit the fink gnucash 
>>> maintainership.  Argh. The 2.0.1 packaging file by someone who 
>>> knows what he's doing  is functional, except that the contents of 
>>> libexec are built in the  install tree instead of the build tree 
>>> (with the side effect that  removing gnucash leaves behind the 
>>> libexec files).
>>>
>>> fink apparently doesn't like having a libexec directory, so gnucash 
>>>  has been configured in fink with --libexecdir=%p/lib, where %p 
>>> almost  always represents /sw. This substitution/config parameter 
>>> was also  done for at least the 1.8 series of gnucash too.
>>>
>>> So /sw/lib/gnucash/overrides/* gets created at buildtime instead of 
>>>  waiting for installtime.
>>>
>>> Is it obvious to any of you what might be causing this behavior, or 
>>>  how I might convince the fink build system of the error of its 
>>> ways?
>>>
>>> Dave
>
>
> Dave
> -- 
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
> Mac 10.4.8, gcc 4.0.1
>
>



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