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| donbex | hello, I'm trying to write a package for ArchLinux for ghostscript-git, but the makefile doesn't seem to support a DESTDIR variable (anymore?) | 09:50.57 |
| kens | I'm not aware that teh GS makefile has ever supported a 'DESTDIR' | 09:51.29 |
| donbex | well, the script they use to make the archlinux package for ghostscript 9.05 calls make with a DESTDIR | 09:52.24 |
| | (that's where I got it from) | 09:52.33 |
| kens | Possibly the distribution maintainers use a custome makefile | 09:52.51 |
| | The build maintainer is not here right now, and I'm not an expert oon the system BTW | 09:53.25 |
| donbex | ok, I see | 09:53.40 |
| kens | However we know that teh various Linux distributions do 'stuff' to teh Ghostscript we supply | 09:54.14 |
| | Which is why we ask people to reproduce problems with the vanilla GS sources | 09:54.29 |
| donbex | well, ArchLinux tends toward vanilla sources | 09:54.39 |
| | the build scripts are just bash scripts, and they are pulling the sources from http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ | 09:55.17 |
| kens | The unix-dll.mak file uses a $(DESTDIR) | 09:55.34 |
| | As does unix-inst.mak | 09:55.50 |
| donbex | I see | 09:56.18 |
| kens | So it looks to me like if you have an environment variable called DESTDRI then that's where it will get built | 09:56.42 |
| | On Unix that is, Windows will be different | 09:56.59 |
| donbex | yes, it should work like that | 09:57.03 |
| | thing is, the makefile generated by automake.sh doesn't seem to use that variable | 09:57.27 |
| kens | Are you using configure ? | 09:57.41 |
| donbex | yes | 09:57.48 |
| kens | Well, like I said, I'm not the build expert | 09:58.10 |
| donbex | *autogen.sh | 09:58.10 |
| kens | You'll have to wiat for chrisl to come online | 09:58.38 |
| | He might be on today, but it is a weekend | 09:58.50 |
| donbex | don't worry, thank you anyway | 09:58.55 |
| kens | NP | 09:59.01 |
| donbex | kens: I solved that issue, and felt quite dumb in the process | 10:43.10 |
| kens | Oh, what was it ? | 10:43.21 |
| donbex | I was cloning the ghostpdl.git repo and building from there, while I should have done that from the 'gs' subdir | 10:44.03 |
| kens | Ah, yes, ghostpdl includes PCL and XPS as well | 10:44.27 |
| donbex | by the way, the gs makefile does support a 'DESTDIR' variable, | 10:44.31 |
| kens | Yep, once I looked into the makefile it looked that way | 10:44.45 |
| | I normally build on Windows which is different | 10:44.57 |
| | And on my Linux VM I don't try to change the dest folder :-) | 10:45.18 |
| donbex | I see | 10:45.25 |
| kens | Like I said, not really a build expert :-( | 10:45.39 |
| donbex | well, me neither | 10:45.51 |
| kens | Anyway, I'm happy its OK for you now, that's good news | 10:46.09 |
| donbex | thanks | 10:46.18 |
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