Re: DeuTex 4.4.902 is out
- From: Andre Majorel <amajorel@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: yadex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:21:17 +0200
On 2005-09-19 22:33 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> Right now I am having a bit of trouble with the packaging, in relation
> to the prefix/destdir business. It seems the debian approach to things
> is to pass $(DESTDIR) to the Makefile during building (the Makefile's
> argument may be called PREFIX, rather than DESTDIR). Forgive me if I am
> wrong (highly likely, I think - I am feeling rather fatigued right now)
> but it looks like, with 4.4.902, you can only influence these variables
> at the configure stage.
>
> The problem there is that during the building of the .deb, debian's
> tools configure, make and install the tools into a temporary
> sub-directory somewhere (usually $PROGRAMROOT/debian/$SOMETHING, where
> $SOMETHING is not determined by the scripts I write). They then analyse
> the files in this subdirectory to create the list of files to
> install/uninstall when the package is installed/uninstalled.
>
> It seems with GNU autoconf programs, what they do is pass --prefix=/usr
> to the configure script, in order to get all that FHS stuff, then later
> override it as part of the Makefile.
>
> Right now, I think I will have to either adjust the Makefile (or
> Makefile.in) to suppor overriding the BINDIR stuff that ./configure
> provides; or pass a different --prefix to the configure script and fix
> the FHS differences afterwards. I think the former is preferable.
I don't know what your trade-offs are but I think you could prefix
all occurrences of "$BINDIR" and "$MANDIR" in configure with
"\$(DESTDIR)". Simple and, I think, robust.
--- configure 2005-09-02 14:34:09.000000000 +0200
+++ configure-debian 2005-09-21 00:01:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@
echo "# DO NOT EDIT -- generated by ./configure"
echo
echo "AWK = $AWK"
- echo "BINDIR = $BINDIR"
+ echo "BINDIR = \$(DESTDIR)$BINDIR"
echo "CC = $CC"
echo "CFLAGS = $CFLAGS"
echo "ETCDIR = $ETCDIR" | sed "s/%v/$VERSION/g"
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@
echo "HAVE_INTTYPES = $HAVE_INTTYPES"
echo "HAVE_SNPRINTF = $HAVE_SNPRINTF"
echo "LDFLAGS = $LDFLAGS"
- echo "MANDIR = $MANDIR"
+ echo "MANDIR = \$(DESTDIR)$MANDIR"
echo "SHAREDIR = $SHAREDIR" | sed "s/%v/$VERSION/g"
echo "SHAREDIRNV = $SHAREDIRNV"
echo
You'll also have to modify Makefile.in to call install(1) with the
-D option. Something along these lines :
--- Makefile.in 2005-09-21 00:05:08.000000000 +0200
+++ Makefile.in-debian 2005-09-21 00:06:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -215,9 +215,9 @@
>$@
install:
- install -p -m 0755 deutex $(BINDIR)
- install -p -m 0755 deusf $(BINDIR)
- install -p -m 0644 deutex.6 $(MANDIR)/man6
+ install -D -p -m 0755 deutex $(BINDIR)/deutex
+ install -D -p -m 0755 deusf $(BINDIR)/deusf
+ install -D -p -m 0644 deutex.6 $(MANDIR)/man6/deutex.6
if [ -d $(MANDIR)/man6/deusf.6 ]; then rmdir $(MANDIR)/man6/deusf.6; fi
ln -sf deutex.6 $(MANDIR)/man6/deusf.6
I may add the -D upstream because it's general enough, although
I'm not 100% sure it's right ; are there cases where you want make
install to fail if $(PREFIX) doesn't exist ?
--
André Majorel <amajorel@xxxxxxxxx>
http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
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