Re: [Fink-devel] unclear how to truly set up a package =/

2004-03-23 Thread Daniel Macks
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:26:55PM -0500, Daniel Henninger wrote: > > 3) you may have to run `fink index` here first, but try `fink -Kk build > > jwgc` > > What's -Kk? I don't see it in any docs. I think 'fink --help' mentions the -K and -k flags. They provide a way to specify the fink.conf Keep

Re: [Fink-devel] unclear how to truly set up a package =/

2004-03-23 Thread Daniel Henninger
> 3) you may have to run `fink index` here first, but try `fink -Kk build > jwgc` What's -Kk? I don't see it in any docs. Daniel > Your source file does not have to be downloadable at this time, just put > the > tarball in /sw/src. > After the build look at /sw/src/jwgc-%n-%v and /sw/src/root-j

Re: [Fink-devel] unclear how to truly set up a package =/

2004-03-23 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel Macks wrote: Couldn't we just say "run this script", maybe put some explanatory comments in the script itself, and "if you need to know the details, RTFScript"? :) dan Well I think youa ll know my stance on that. That would simply make us

Re: [Fink-devel] unclear how to truly set up a package =/

2004-03-23 Thread Daniel Macks
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:17:03PM +0100, David H. wrote: > Daniel Macks wrote: > > > > http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php?phpLang=en#compile-myself > > > >I wonder if we should have a /sw/bin/init-compileenv.{csh,sh} that > >sets these so we don't have to keep updating the docs when

Re: [Fink-devel] unclear how to truly set up a package =/

2004-03-23 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel Macks wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:47:46PM -0500, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: You can usually test things by simulating yourself what Fink would do. Set these variables: export CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include export LDFLAGS=-L/sw/li

Re: [Fink-devel] unclear how to truly set up a package =/

2004-03-23 Thread Daniel Macks
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:47:46PM -0500, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: > > You can usually test things by simulating yourself what Fink would do. > Set these variables: > > export CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include > export LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib > export LD_PREBIND=1 > export LD_PREBIN

Re: [Fink-devel] unclear how to truly set up a package =/

2004-03-23 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Mar 23, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Daniel Henninger wrote: Wow thanks! That's exactly what I needed to know! So am I to assume that folk put together all of these packages as root? (rpm's I tend to be extra careful and build the rpm as myself instead of root) I have no qualms with doing it as root i

Re: [Fink-devel] unclear how to truly set up a package =/

2004-03-23 Thread Daniel Henninger
Wow thanks! That's exactly what I needed to know! So am I to assume that folk put together all of these packages as root? (rpm's I tend to be extra careful and build the rpm as myself instead of root) I have no qualms with doing it as root if that's the only option, just wanted to know. I'll k

Re: [Fink-devel] unclear how to truly set up a package =/

2004-03-23 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Peter O'Gorman wrote: After the build look at /sw/src/jwgc-%n-%v and /sw/src/root-jwgc-%n-%v make that jwgc-%v-%r... Peter -- Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial p

Re: [Fink-devel] unclear how to truly set up a package =/

2004-03-23 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Daniel Henninger wrote: Folk, I'm having troubles figuring out how to set up a fink package exactly. I'm quite familiar with RPMs and fink's package files definitely seem similar, but what I'm not sure of is how to test-build a package outside of the tree... or is that not possible? I'm getting

[Fink-devel] unclear how to truly set up a package =/

2004-03-23 Thread Daniel Henninger
Folk, I'm having troubles figuring out how to set up a fink package exactly. I'm quite familiar with RPMs and fink's package files definitely seem similar, but what I'm not sure of is how to test-build a package outside of the tree... or is that not possible? I'm getting the impression that all