On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Robb, Sam wrote:
> Igor et. al.,
>
> Are there any instructions for using the generic
> build script, aside from what's documented in the
> gdb itself? I'm looking at using the gbs for a couple
> of packages, and I'm trying to understand how it was
> intended to be used.
Sam,
Basically, the GBS is supposed to be a template, which you adapt for each
package. For a lot of packages it can be used as-is, as it will determine
the tarball extraction method, the package name, etc automatically. But
in some cases (non-standard archiving, different name for a test rule,
more documentation files to install), the GBS needs to be modified/patched
with package-specific things.
> Right now, it looks like it's something like:
>
> 1) Get source tarball (ex, foo-0.1.tar.gz)
> 2) Rename GBS as appropriate (ex, foo-0.1-1.sh)
> (hereafter refered to as "gbs" for brevity)
> 3) Use gbs to set up work area (./gbs prep)
> 4) Configure (./gbs configure)
> 5) Build (./gbs make)
> 6) Install (./gbs install)
> 7) Package (./gbs package)
> 8) Repeat (4) - (7) as needed
> 9) Generate a patch (./gbs mkpatch)
> 10) Clean (./gbs mkpatch)
I'm not sure this is needed, actually...
> 11) Generate a source package (./gbs src-package)
> 12) Generate a binary package (./gbs package)
> 13) If everything looks right, take a deep breath
> and run "./gbs package all"
I think this is just "./gbs all".
> Am I missing something? I'm having trouble figuring out where I
> should put the README file and setup.hint - that should still go into
> the CYGWIN-PATCHES directory in the main srcdir, from the looks of
> things. Is there anythign I've missed?
>
> -Samrobb
Yes, the Cygwin-specific README and setup.hint should both go into
CYGWIN-PATCHES. If this works for you -- great. If not, you'll have to
patch the GBS, but I'd like to know exactly what changes you make, since
it may be possible to incorporate some of them into the GBS in a generic
way.
Igor
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