Re: Making Packages

[Stefan Bidigaray]

On 10/6/06, Stefan Bidigaray <stefanbidi@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/6/06, Adam Fedor <fedor@qwest.net> wrote:

My intention for
making a distribution was something like:

./InstallGNUstep --install-root=/tmp/gnustep-core

 I'll give that a try, since it seems a lot easier than what I'm doing!  I kind of got confused with --install-root in the script, it looked like it foudn itself into some --prefix= options in the ./configure scripts, which is not what I wanted.  Following some of the script, I got --install-root=/whatever, /whatever was then set to gs_install_prefix.  Then, when building ffcall it sets --prefix=$gs_install_prefix$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT, which is where I got confused about it's use.  Either way, I'll give that a shot and see what happens.

OK, I guess this is something for your next release of startup... --install-root doesn't work!  In a nut shell, every time source $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT $gs_install_prefix$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT needs to be sourced instead.  Which actually turns up another problem, in /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT (and everything else) still reference /usr/GNUstep/System.  So it looks like the only way to actually --install-root fully funcional would be to set all the variable by hand!  Shouldn't be too hard but I'm going to wait until I can get the package built (which looks like it's only going to happen tomorrow) till I take another look at it.  I can give it a shot at fixing it and maybe send you patch by Sunday or Monday, I'll let you know how it goes.

Stefan