Re: Conversion to /package

Paul Jarc <[email protected]> schrieb:
>Andy Goth <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This would involve patching many of the programs I use,
>
>Mostly it can be done with existing, supported compile-time
>configuration options.

Another possibility I was thinking about was patching the programs that
make these software packages use the paths they use: the GNU auto*-suite.

I began to patch autoconf and automake and all looked very promisingly:
I was able to install strace like this:
#v+
autoreconf -vfi &&
./configure &&
make &&
make check &&
make install &&
sp-version /package/misc/spf/strace-$(eval "$(grep 'VERSION=' configure)" && echo $VERSION) &&
sp-links /package/misc/spf/strace/command /command &&

ls -lR /package/misc/spf/strace*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 2003-09-06 12:33 /package/misc/spf/strace -> strace-4.4.98

/package/misc/spf/strace-4.4.98:
insgesamt 8
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 2003-09-06 12:33 command
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 2003-09-06 12:33 man

/package/misc/spf/strace-4.4.98/command:
insgesamt 144
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       129468 2003-09-06 12:33 strace
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8323 2003-09-06 12:33 strace-graph

/package/misc/spf/strace-4.4.98/man:
insgesamt 20
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        18859 2003-09-06 12:33 strace.1
#v-

Very easy. Just ./configure; make; make install. As they always told us
at GNU.

Going further I was thinking about modifing automake to
* implement the sp-version and sp-links steps and making them available
  via 'make install-spf'.
* convert the man and info directories into html that easily could be
  integrated into /doc.

But the problem with this installation method is that there are too many
GNU packages out there that use and require too many different versions
of the GNU auto*-tools to let this method be practicable.

Regards,
 Thomas