Re: Help packaging the latest pidgin.

Ok I am following the tutorial here:
http://autopackage.org/docs/tutorials/glb-reloc.html only to find that the
code it mentions exists in lb-window.c does not exist, one can only assume
the package has changed since the tutorial was written.

I would prefer to get my head around the process of using binreloc on simple
applications like the one in the example, because once I know roughly what I
am doing applying it to Pidgin will only be time consuming, not hard AND
time consuming.

However the secondary route is sounding more appealing considering I'd be
(if all goes to plan) packaging things like firefox and pidgin on a regular
basis, if there is a quicker and easier way do it it, it perhaps would be
more advantageous to opt for the quicker way.

On 30/01/2008, Isak Savo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 2008/1/30, Neil Munro <[email protected]>:
> > On 30/01/2008, Isak Savo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > There are two ways to use binreloc.
> > > 1) The "normal" way: This involves changing the code to not rely on
> > > hard coded paths. Basically find all locations in the code where it
> > > has hard coded strings for e.g. datafiles and replace them with their
> > > corresponding binreloc API function call.
>
> > Ok, I'll try the tried and true method first, how do I go about doing
> it, I
> > remember from your website that it's in the main Makefile.am that I try
> and
> > change hard coded paths, but on a project like Pidgin I imagine I have
> to
> > edit more than the main Makefile.am however, your website said if the
> > package is also built for windows binreloc should not be required and
> Pidgin
> > is packaged for windows, so I am not entirely sure what to do. Or even
> where
> > to begin.
>
> It's actually not so much Makefile.am, but rather the actual source code
> files.
>
> I recommend you read the tutorial, which walks through your exact
> situation:
>    http://autopackage.org/docs/tutorials/glb.html
>
> It goes through all the steps you need to learn. And one of these
> steps is about binreloc.
>
> Then there's the binreloc documentation:
>    http://autopackage.org/docs/binreloc/
> and the API reference (you should use the glib api, since pidgin is a
> gtk project):
>    http://autopackage.org/docs/binreloc/doxygen/glib-binreloc.html
>
> -Isak
>
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