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Today's Topics:
1. How to make a single plugin and install it. (Jonathan Greig)
2. Re: How to make a single plugin and install it. (Charlie Brej)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:43:44 -0600
From: "Jonathan Greig" <[email protected]>
Subject: How to make a single plugin and install it.
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I have plymouth source from git and have already done autoconf automake
./configure make on fedora 10. It builds everything and the .so files are
generated. I have been using the spinfinity plugin as a test. I modified 1
line in the animation function so that the spinny throbber image should
appear at 1/4 screen width rather than center(a simple test to start with).
line 206 in spinfinity plugin.c
[code]
area.width / 4.0 - width / 2.0,
[/code]
When I:
1) copy the spinfinity.so file that was generated in the .libs directory to
/usr/lib64/plymouth
2) copy the spinfinity folder to /usr/share/plymouth/spinfinity
3) /usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-plugin spinfinity
4) /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd
it does not work. I get the fallback to the white-blue progressbar. What is
the proper way to install a plugin? I know there isn't any documentation on
plugins yet, but I might be able to help somewhat if I could even test some
of my own code.
Also, I am familiar with usplash. Is it possible to make a plugin from a
single makefile in a plugin directory somewhere else on my harddrive rather
than having to make the whole source? I can barely understand Makefiles as
is but all this automake .in .am stuff just further adds to the confusion.
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:51:04 +0000
From: Charlie Brej <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: How to make a single plugin and install it.
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Jonathan Greig wrote:
> I have plymouth source from git and have already done autoconf automake
> ./configure make on fedora 10. It builds everything and the .so files
> are generated. I have been using the spinfinity plugin as a test. I
> modified 1 line in the animation function so that the spinny throbber
> image should appear at 1/4 screen width rather than center(a simple test
> to start with).
>
> line 206 in spinfinity plugin.c
> [code]
> area.width / 4.0 - width / 2.0,
> [/code]
>
> When I:
> 1) copy the spinfinity.so file that was generated in the .libs directory
> to /usr/lib64/plymouth
> 2) copy the spinfinity folder to /usr/share/plymouth/spinfinity
> 3) /usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-plugin spinfinity
> 4) /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd
>
> it does not work. I get the fallback to the white-blue progressbar. What
> is the proper way to install a plugin? I know there isn't any
> documentation on plugins yet, but I might be able to help somewhat if I
> could even test some of my own code.
Try getting a fresh git checkout and run:
# ./autogen.sh
# configure --prefix=/usr/ --enable-maintainer-mode
# make
# make install
The plugins in git are incompatible with the server in F10. You need to install
the full package. Generally "make install" takes care of installing into the
correct directory so there is no need to manually copy files.
The reason it drops to the text mode blue bar plugin is because that is the
backup plugin for when the default plugin fails (which in this case it has).
If you want to test the plugin without having to restart the machine, drop to
text console (init 3) and run:
plymouthd ; plymouth --show-splash; sleep 10; plymouth --quit
Be careful as if you dont have the quit in the line you may end up having to
ssh
to the machine to kill it.
> Also, I am familiar with usplash. Is it possible to make a plugin from a
> single makefile in a plugin directory somewhere else on my harddrive
> rather than having to make the whole source? I can barely understand
> Makefiles as is but all this automake .in .am stuff just further adds to
> the confusion.
Yes you can but you will need to do the "automake .in .am stuff" to make it
work. Easiest thing to do is to work from the checkout you have and edit one of
the plugins (like you're already doing) and "make install" from that directory.
It will make and install only that splash without compiling anything else.
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