Hi Luis, On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:38:51AM -0500, Luis Ibanez wrote: > This was my first lame attempt at > making progress on the installation front :-)
:-) > Here was my reasoning: > > fis-gtm makefile provide a target called "package" > that takes the outcome of the build, and package it > into the tar file: > > gtm_V54002B_linux_i586_pro.tar.gz > > It contains a collection of executables, *.m files, > *.o files, and several scripts. > > This is the same tar file that ones downloads > from sourceforge when manually installing > fis-gtm (as far as I understand...). > > e.g. here are the instructions we use in that case: > http://osehra.org/wiki/installing-gtm > > > > So, my plan was: > > 1) Take advantage of the "package" target in the > gtm Makefile, to select the binary files of interest > to be included in an installation. > > 2) Take the resulting tar.gz file, expand it in a tmp > directory, (debian/tmp). > > 3) Finally, cherry-pick the files from that tmp > directory and put them in their final destination Thanks for the explanation which helps understanding your approach which is unusual but for the moment but I can not see any problem in it (besides the esthetical fact that it contains some useless tar - untar process which could be avoided somehow). > Two alternative plans are; > > > A) To directly use the "./configure" file in the > binary directory, which actually pick some > defaults and move files to their final location. > http://osehra.org/wiki/installing-gtm > > or > > B) Work from the "gtminstall" script that Bhaskar > pointed out. In this case, we have to skip several > portions of the script, because it really starts with > downloading the tar files from sourceforge. > > > This is clearly another chapter > in which I have a lot to learn... :-) I'm to less involved into this to decide which plan works out best. For the moment I'd go the most simple way which leads to a working package and I trust you to find this way. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
