Christophe Tronche wrote: > Ok, the week-end is over, and I had promised something, so here it is. > ...
All looks very cool. > In the top Makefile.am, put > > AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = package-rpm > > In the configure.ac, chances are that you've something like: > > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(autopack, 0.1.1) > > You've to add this (for example): > > AP_INIT_AUTOPACK(An automake package generation module, > 0, > GPL, > Applications/Multimedia, > Christophe Tronche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > http://gnu.org/automake/, > [This is an extension to automake to let make build > effortlessly (hopefully !) packages such as RPM, .deb, System > V, etc... packages. To use this, put AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = > package-xxx in your Makefile.am]) > > The first parameter is a short (one-line) description of the package, > the 2nd ("0") is the package version, > the 3rd ("GPL") is the license type (some packagers require it, so > give some thoughts and pick one) > the 4th ("Applications/Multimedia"), is basically where to put it in > the menus (called the "group" in some snobbish way). Some packagers > may not handle it, but some require it, so it's better to put one; > the 5th is your address, so that you can be congratulated... or flamed ! > the 6th is an URL pointing to the project; > the 7th is a long description of the package; > the 8th (not present in the example) is the path to an icon file, that > some packager can use. I guess the only thing that concerns me right now is that the list of positional parameters in AP_INIT_AUTOPACK might become a little unwieldy in future as we add further options, many of which are specific to particular packagers. Could we do it with a bunch of separate macros, e.g. AP_INIT_AUTOPACK AP_INFO_LICENSE("GPL") AP_INFO_AUTHOR("Christophe Tronche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>") ... Options that aren't specified could take sensible defaults (certain options would presumably be mandatory) or if they really need to be specified for a particular packager, that package target could fail with an error if the option has not been defined. Disclaimer: I'm an automake novice, so apologies in advance if the above is a pile of dingo's kidneys... Sy
