Re: Questions about creating a development package

2007/10/15, Jan Niklas Hasse <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not English, so there might be some mistakes. ;-)
> First of all i want to say, that autopackage is great! I really thank you
> for creating it, it's very good, i like it!

Great!

> Because I want to see more programs using it, I am trying to let my own
> programs use it. The first one i tried is a static library, the package
> installs the development version (.a, .hpp, .pc).
> I got 2 questions:
> - How can i require the dev versions of packages? E.g. i have to require
> libpng-dev.
You have to think in different terms. You don't *really* depend on
something named libpng-dev, you depend on header files and some libs,
right? You should check for these.

If the existing png-skeleton[1] doesn't do this already, you'll need
to either create a new skeleton or write the required code in your
[Prepare] section.

> - What's wrong with the attached apspec? When i try to install the created
> package i get:
> Installing libraries...
> Installing compile-time configuration files...
> Error: Package jngl Library could not be installed.

It could be the copyFiles call that's failing because the directory
doesn't exist.

You might wanna set DEBUGLEVEL to 3 and re-run the installation. That
should give you more detailed output:
export DEBUGLEVEL=3
package install xyz.package

-Isak

[1] http://trac.autopackage.org/browser/main/trunk/share/skeletons/%40libpng.org/libpng/skeleton.1

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