Re: Making Packages

[Adam Fedor]

On Oct 6, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Stefan Bidigaray wrote:

> Well, I'm testing the install right now!  Pretty much what I did was 
> get gnustep-startup-0.16.0 and gave it some options.  I decided to use 
> /usr/GNUstep as the root and will put symlinks on / (ie: /System -> 
> /usr/GNUstep/System, etc).  I looked through the ./InstallGNUstep 
> script for some hints on how I could use gnustep-startup to send the 
> files where I wanted.  The script is fairly complicated and uses some 
> options that are not shown on --help (like --install-root).  I had to 
> spend a few hours last night going through it and still don't 
> understand a few parts, like where is the gs_build_package (to name a 
> few) program that is run from inside the script.
Look in the scripts directory.

I did intend to put enough options in so that you could make a 
distribution with Startup, but it's something I've never tested myself. 
 The --install-root help was probably commented out because I was 
waiting until I could test it.  If you do get a solution, please let me 
know, so I can update the InstallGNUstep script.  My intention for 
making a distribution was something like:

./InstallGNUstep --install-root=/tmp/gnustep-core

> These were the steps I took (I'm installing it to /tmp/gnustep-core):
>
>   export GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR=/tmp/gnustep-core 
> DESTDIR=/tmp/gnustep-core
>   ./InstallGNUstep

DESTDIR doesn't work with the current version of gnustep-make and 
startup and GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR should be

GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR=/tmp/gnustep-core/usr/GNUstep/System

using --install-root to InstallGNUstep should do this correctly. You 
could try doing this from the SVN version of gnustep-make and startup 
(but startup is not updated for the recent changes in gnustep-make).