On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:41:10 +0100, francesco wrote in message <498f0b26.5060...@brisa.homelinux.net>:
> Arnt Karlsen ha scritto: > > Hi Roy, > > > > ..are you (one of) the Debian maintainer(s) of SG|FG etc .debs? > > > Hi, > no I am not a .deb or .rpm fgfs mantainer. > > > I'm going to try (learn) build these and brlcad right out of > > git, brlcad-7.14.0 fails to build from source for me and I'd > > like to make FG style deb build scripts work for brlcad and > > then try put brlcad's program naming scheme into SG|FG|TG etc > > to use that scheme to allow several FG builds to co-exist as > > .debs and .rpms etc on the same box. > > > making deb or rpm to co-exist is not easy, ..er, what I meant to say, was make use of brlcad style file renaming to resolve both install-time and runtime program naming conflicts and allow installation of several similar FG builds from git into the one packaging system, it be Debian or Red Hat etc style, not to mix 2 etc packaging systems on one box. > you better do it with some .tar.gz ..didn't work with brlcad's latest for me, and I need to learn git anyway. ;o) > well, I have no experience with brlcad but Curtis suggestion is right. > when you ./configure it you need to do something like : > ./configure --prefix=/folder/I/want > than make > when you "make install" it, it will be placed in /folder/I/want > > then you can zip it or build you deb package that will install brlcad > under that folder. ..yup, what that scheme doesn't do yet, is allow FG program names like /usr/bin/arnt's-git-fgfs-with-wood-gasifier-in-the-An2 from my future git-fgfs-with-wood-gasifier-in-the-An2.i386.deb to coexist with /usr/bin/francesco's-svn-fgfs-with-charcoal-gasifier-in-the-An2 from your svn-fgfs-with-charcoal-gasifier-in-the-An2.i386.deb ;o), the package system will keep them out of each others way, but I can see /usr/bin/*fgfs* see everything as /usr/bin/"fgfs" and mix up these things. > Cheers > Francesco ..did you find a Debian guinea pig for your Ubuntu FG build script? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
