Essien Ita Essien wrote:
> sounds interesting... very. Can you give s snippet from the resuling
> PKGBUILD? sorry i'm a bit slow with _only_ textual descriptions :)
>
>
OK - see if this helps.
Firstly the case where one package is split-up. For example the gcc
PKGBUILD would look something like (with much stealing from current
package builds):
build()
{
....
make || return 1
}
package()
{
#main
make -j1 DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg/main install || return 1
rm -f ${startdir}/pkg/main/usr/lib/lib*
find ${startdir}/pkg/main -name libstdc++.mo -delete
#lib
make -j1 DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg/lib install-target-libstdc++-v3
install-target-libmudflap install-target-libgomp install-target-libssp
|| return 1
rm -rf ${startdir}/pkg/lib/usr/include
rm -rf ${startdir}/pkg/lib/usr/lib/gcc
rm -rf ${startdir}/pkg/lib/usr/bin
rm -rf ${startdir}/pkg/lib/usr{,share}/man
find ${startdir}/pkg/lib -name gcc.mo -delete
#obc
...
}
Note the gcc package is installed in ${startdir}/pkg/main and the
gcc-libs is installed in ${startdir}/pkg/libs. That is it.... no other
tricks!
Now the slightly more difficult case of supporting different
configurations. I'll use ettercap as an example as I have looked at it
recently (see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4051 ). Basically, it can
have an optional GTK interface. So you would end up with something like
build
{
cd $startdir/src/$origname-$origver
case "$1" in
"gtk" )
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-plugins
--enable-https
;;
* )
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-plugins
--enable-https --disable-gtk
;;
esac
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
...
}
This would work with "makepkg" using the default case (*) and making
package ettercap. "makepkg gtk" would make ettercap-gtk. If we were
building foo-mysql and foo-prestgres then the default case would be
"return 1" or some other error.
Note that I have concerns that this way of providing multiple
configuration options may make things too complicated with needing case
statements for provides/conflicts, configure options, etc... But then
again, it may still be better than providing multiple PKGBUILDS. I'm
still trying to improve this so more suggestions are alway welcome! :)
Allan
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