Re: Questions about creating a development package

2007/11/4, Jan Niklas Hasse <[email protected]>:
>
> >
> > 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.

Cool, will review and commit to svn. Thanks

> 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.

Yes, by specifying RootInstallOnly=true in your apspec [Meta] section.
 I'm curious though, why doesn't pkg-config find it? Autopackage
should update PKG_CONFIG_PATH accordingly, but it might require an
'exec bash' in terminal or restart of the terminal program.

-Isak

-Isak

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