Re: Questions about creating a development package

>
>
> 2007/10/16, Jan Niklas Hasse <[email protected]>:
> > I found a easy way:
> >
> > INTERFACE_VERSIONS=`pkg-config libpng --modversion`
> >
> > If there's an error pkg-config will write at stderr, otherwise it
> returns
> > the version number.
>
> You don't want this. You should not print any errors yourself - the
> autopackage framework will inform the user about missing packages.
>
> Either do 'pkg-config --exists libpng' first, or redirect stderr to
> /dev/null in your skeleton.


Okay, i did 2> /dev/null and attached the new versions.

> Still my package can't be installed as root. I attached the package, maybe
> > someone can try what's wrong.
>
> It took a fair amount of debugging, but I see the problem now:
>   copyFile $src $dst
> requires $dst to be a filename. You have a directory name, which is
> why it fails.
>
> Change the second arg to be a filename (by adding jngl.hpp) or use
> copyFiles (notice plural form). Weird limitation of copyFile that I
> didn't even know of...


Thanks, that works!

Is it possible to force the User to install as root? Because my package must
be installed as root, otherwise pkg-config doesn't find the .pc file.

Jan-Nik

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