P Linnell wrote: > Hi, > > I've got the beginnings of a workable cross-platform spec file in the > works for Suse's Build Server. > > Some questions and comments: > > 1) What does adding STL port add and should it be a BuildRequires for > Linux/Unix ?
I integrated STLPort support so that people could use it on platforms with ancient or broken C++ libraries. STLPort support is also useful if the project that uses PoDoFo wishes to use STLPort themselves. Since PoDoFo presents a public C++ API it must use the same C++ libraries as the other components in the executable. It can also be handy to build a debug STLPort since it can check for use of invalid iterators, etc (like Visual Studio's debug STL, but portable). It is unnecessary and unwise to build PoDoFo against STLPort on any current major platform unless you have a specific reason to do so. Avoid doing so for packages. I'll annotate the documentation to that effect. > 2) There are no make uninstall targets. My bad. I'll try to sort that out shortly. `make uninstall' is something I never use and that I distrust - and since I install into specific prefixes for any dev work it never matters. Nonetheless, I'm sure it's useful for others and for packaging so I'll have to make sure it works. > 3) I'm finding that paths are hardwired and without relative paths in > an rpm build root, install tries to install to the real /usr/lib /etc > if prefix is used. Interesting. I imagine I can examine how that was addressed in Scribus to see a good approach to that issue. > 4) There needs to be a lib64 install option. We sorted this in Scribus > 1.3.5svn recently. IRC might be easiest to discuss the gory details. Good point. I'll try to drop in and catch you over the next week or so. I'm moving house at the moment though (same mobile number if you need to reach me urgently) so I'm not too sure exactly when. > Once I'm happy with it you can have the spec file for commiting to svn. That's be brilliant. I would like to stress, though, that PoDoFo is _NOT_ API or ABI stable from release to release. It's important that people using packaged versions understand that, and it means that it might be necessary to support the installation of multiple versions in parallel. It is guaranteed that the soname will change with every release (since compatibility is broken) but I'm not entirely sure about the best way to handle the headers. -- Craig Ringer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Podofo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users
