[beports] Re: making binary zips

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:39 AM, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm trying something different to capture all of the installed files
> for things built using the GNU system.  Here's what I did, first I got
> it to the point where I knew everything that is required to build the
> package, built it and tested it, then ran make clean.  For my porting
> efforts I've been using the new Haiku /boot/common as my --prefix
> target.  I make a new folder called say /boot/target, then use
> ./configure --prefix=/boot/target, then make, make install.  Now I
> rename target to common and zip up /boot/common into a file called
> port-haiku-x.x.x.zip
> Then I delete this new common folder and rename the common-1 back to common.
> I'm guessing there's other ways to do this and only capture the files
> that should be included in a binary zip file.  Anyone have other ideas
> on this?

This is very bad idea. Autotools supports DESTDIR variable. You should
build package as usual and install files to different directory, e.g.:
make install DESTDIR=~/mytmproot
and then zip all from $DESTDIR

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Grzegorz Dąbrowski

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