Claudio Ochoa wrote:
Hi, first of all I am a Fink novice user, trying to make a fink package
for ciao (a open-source prolog). I am having the following problem:
* when installing, some links to some executables are created (for
example, a link ciao for the real executable ciao-1.10p6).
* the problem is that this link points to the %i
/sw/src/root-ciao-1.10p6 install directory
* thus, when doing "fink install ciao", the link does not get updated to
/sw/bin, which is the final installation dir.
How can I cope with this problem?
Many standard configure based projects recognize both --prefix and
DESTDIR and know that DESTDIR is different from the runtime root
directory. But many handcrafted installation procedures unfortunately
pretend to have never heard of the idea of a package manager with its
distinction between packaging root and installation root. If this is one
of those, then for using it in Fink (or debian or redhat) you will have
to handcraft an InstallScript or patch the Makefiles correspondingly.
For the case of symlinks, though, if they use absolute pathnames for the
source instead of relative pathnames, I would call this a bug anyway,
and patching this in the Makefiles would be a proper bug fix.
What I mean is that you shouldn't create a symlink
/sw/bin/ciao -> /sw/bin/ciao-1.10p6
which gets deformed to
/sw/src/fink.build/root-ciao-1.10p6/sw/bin/ciao ->
/sw/src/fink.build/root-ciao-1.10p6/sw/bin/ciao-1.10p6
in the install phase, but rather
/sw/bin/ciao -> ciao-1.10p6
The latter is relocatable without further ado.
--
Martin
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