On Thursday 10 September 2009 10:15:44 David Greaves wrote: > Graham Cobb wrote: > > I would suggest that Nokia add /opt/bin to the PATH, add /opt/lib to the > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH and add /opt/lib/pkgconfig to PKG_CONFIG_PATH (all on the > > device and in scratchbox) and that we ignore the FHS rule that packages > > should not install into those directories. That would make things a > > little easier and more robust. We can then build with --prefix=/opt and > > add a couple of softlinks if necessary for files which still need to be > > elsewhere. > > And if you depend on porting in a few other debian packages you'll > repackage them for maemo?
No, in most cases just leave them and let them install into /usr as normal -- most of them are small libraries or, occasionally, small command line apps. > At the moment 'porting' an app is usually a semi-automated process. > Having to figure out the debian/rules for each and then hacking their > ./configure to --prefix=/opt Many of the Debian packages I have to port to get the libraries I need require a configure change. That is one of the things I normally expect. Along with changing the Maintainer, often changing the dependencies (usually linked with the configure change -- to remove a dependency on something not ported and not relevant for Maemo), changing the Makefile.am to remove building the docs, etc. Doesn't take long. > PLEASE don't require a ./configure change > > optify is the lesser evil My position is completely the opposite. Where possible make a configure change -- only use optify in the cases where using configure doesn't work (like source code which has hard coded paths). How about a combination: 1) Allow use of optify -- not automatically in the autobuilder but as a single line in the debian/rules. Any package that wants to use that is fine. 2) Nokia sets up the environment (in both the SDK and on the device) to include /opt directories in PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH and PYTHON_PATH. In that case, I would encourage Mer to also implement this. 3) Allow use of --prefix=/opt. Any package that wants to use that is fine. In particular, allow installation into /opt/bin, /opt/lib, etc (not just into /opt/<package>). Note that this is not FHS compliant (FHS would require --prefix=/opt/package). An alternative to 2 and 3 is to use --prefix=/opt/package and make the package install symlinks where necessary (e.g. into /usr/lib/pkgconfig and into /usr/bin). More work for the maintainer but better FHS compliance and a better chance of working on old versions of Maemo. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
