Excerpts from Roelof Wobben's message of Wed Feb 16 13:53:09 +0100 2011: > If a make a new package for Nixos Can I use configure make and then make > install or must I use cmake ?
Some packages can be build using multiple builders. One example is blender. So its not always easy to decide which way to go. This is the exception though. How to find out which build system should be used? Is one of the following files present then you know: configure[.in], maybe Makefile.am =========================== autotools should be used Example: ./configure && make && make install This is the default so you don't have to run configure and make yourself. See pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh phases: configurePhase, buildPhase, installPhase which are always run unless you override phases (line 804 in setup.sh) Sometimes configure or the makefile is missing and they have to be created by automake and autoconf. Often an autogen.sh script is present running those tools which correct options. CMakeLists.txt =============== cmake should be used Usually "out of source" builds are preferred. Thus: mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make adding cmake to buildInputs installs a "hook" which modifies the default system so that cmake is run in the configure phase. (-> pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/cmake/setup-hook.sh) SConstruct ============= scons should be used. Usage: scons .. (or the like. Have a look at the existing expressions) I don't think you'll hit scons builds. HTH Marc Weber _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
