packaging and config params

[Kevin Broderick]

On 5 Oct 2006, at 3:32 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Quoting Kevin Broderick <gnucash at kevinbroderick.com>:
>
>>
>> On 5 Oct 2006, at 1:38 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>>> Quoting Dave Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>:
>>>> [CHOMP]
>>>> 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"..
>>
>> Not exactly.  See the fink build process description at <http://  
>> fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/reference.php?phpLang=en#build>
>>
>> (Which, AFAIK, should be correct; however, I've never tried  
>> packaging  anything for fink, so AFAIK may not get you very far.)
>
> Ummm..  After reading this page I'm still convinced I'm right, and  
> indeed
> the first section implies that, yes, it IS exactly..  The "compile  
> phase"
> is where you run the configure script and then run "make".  This part
> should not touch anything in /sw (well... it'll touch the fink  
> builddir:
> /sw/src/fink.build/gnucash-2.0.1-1 but that really doesn't count).
>
> Then inthe "install phase" it should only touch the temporary  
> install dir:
> /sw/src/fink.build/root-gnucash-2.0.1-1/sw/

I think I misread and/or misunderstood some of the original  
discussion, and I agree with your interpretation of the documentation.

>>>>> 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?
>>
>> That is correct.  Fink supports both install from source and  
>> install  from binary; in the case of the former, it builds a DEB  
>> locally and  then installs it.  However, there is an install  
>> process during the  build process that differs from the install  
>> step following the build  process (according to the aforementioned  
>> fink docs).
>
> What?  "install step during the build process" and "install step
> following the build process"??  That makes no sence to me.  Perhaps
> what you mean is that there is the "make install" during the build  
> process,
> and then "dpkg install" to install the binary package, and that  
> those two
> steps differ?

Yes.  By "install process during the build process", I was referring  
to the "install phase" of the build process (as it is referred to at  
the fink doc); by "install step following the build process", I meant  
the "dpkg install" step.

--Kevin