Matthew Burgess wrote: > As I'm sure you're already aware, Gordon, we have historically tried to stick > to > an entirely linear, no-optional-extras format to the book. As such, I would > prefer it if we just went whole-heartedly into DESTDIR support, no ifs, buts > or > maybes :-). >
In fact, that's the route I've been working on - I've cleaned up my last posting a bit further, and I'm working on a build now - ironically, tripped up by a jhalfs-trunk bug - remove_existing_dirs in makefile-functions has a reference to $(SRCDIR) that should be $(SRCSDIR). (I'm in the process of subscribing to alfs-discuss as well.) > So, I'd be more than happy to review any patch(es) you make against trunk. I > suspect this may need a change to jhalfs, which I use to automate my builds, > so that it will optionally define your make_package() function, but I don't > think that will be too hard for me, you or someone else to fix up. > Yeah, for the moment I've hacked around it - I wasn't quite sure how to go about that. But I have some other thoughts on jhalfs as well, but I can go into those there :) > Thanks for working on this! It's alway nice to see new contributors! > Hey, this is a huge help to me as well - I was well on my way to defining an XML spec for downloading and installing packages from Slackware tarballs or from source when a friend of mine said, "Hey, this looks just like LFS..." This is why I love open-source software! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
