Re: Need help making simple .bb for Wifi-radar

Am Sonntag, den 14.05.2006, 15:38 +0200 schrieb Nicolas FR:
> WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2  utility for managing WiFi profiles. It
> runs just fine on Openzaurus with manual install. I am trying to make
> a proper .bb recipe for it, but I am stuck.

Python applications should be using distutils... 

> There's a Makefile in the archive with a simple rule for install. All
> the destinations dirs are defined as:
> sbindir         = /usr/sbin
> initdir         = /etc/init.d
> sysconfdir      = /etc/wifi-radar
> mandir          = /usr/share/man
> pixmapsdir      = /usr/share/pixmaps
> appsdir         = /usr/share/applications
> 
> What should I do? Patch the Makefile? Or is there some variable that I
> can define in the .bb so that when the install rule is proceded, the
> files get installed in the proper bitbake directory and not in my
> system dirs?

You have to override all variables, i.e.

oe_runmake sbindir=${D}${sbindir} initdir=${sysconfdir}/init.d ...
install

Have a look at do_install in autotools.bbclass
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Regards,

Mickey.
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Dipl.-Inf. Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[email protected]>
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