Re: Okay, this is my 3rd package, now I need help...
Thanks for all the replies, this one brings up some related questions...
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:55 pm, Neil Roeth wrote:
> The approach I took with a multi-binary package that I created from scratch
> was to do the configure and make, then set DESTDIR to $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp,
> export it, and do the make install. [...]
So, there's never <packagename>.rules files, then? Or just in the method
that Neil describes?
Actually, in my case there is no "make install" -- it's a very simple Makefile.
As shipped, the package builds a bunch of binaries in "bin/" (which means
$DISTDIR/bin if $DISTDIR is the distribution directory), there's suggestions in the
"Install" document about what to do after that, but no automation.
Is it better practice to alter the Makefile to add an "install" target, or to put
that code directly into the debian/rules file? And are those in fact, my only
two options?
And anyway, while I'm posting -- this package is designed to be driven
by some database sources (one is supposedly 80 GB, though I haven't seen
it yet). You can install these from CDROMs or download them (from NSSDC --
I have not checked, but the usual status of such sources is "US Govt
'Copyright Free'"), but there's also a possibility of using an RPC call to the
URL of a database server.
Given this kind of situation, I'd probably prefer it if there were a /etc/wcstools.conf,
but in fact, the code doesn't seem to support this -- there are hard-coded
defaults in the C sources, which can be overridden by environment variables
(as shipped, they seem to point to various directories under the top-level
directory "/data").
I'm thinking about altering the sources to point at remote database servers,
since that seems like the right thing to do for the typical end user, so that
it'll work out of the box (and I'm *not* shipping 80GB files). However, there
are probably more than one server to choose from, and the end user
*might* have the CDROM data, so I'm not sure what the "best practice"
is here, either.
Terry
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Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com
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