[Slackbuilds-users] Another build tool

Robby Workman rworkman at slackbuilds.org
Sat Feb 9 20:57:58 UTC 2008


ciol wrote:
> Hi, I changed pkgmk from pkgutils (Crux) so that it creates slackware 
> packages. It is a simple shell script with a conf file.
> 
> Example:
> ------------
> name=foo
> version=1.0
> release=1
> 
> source=(foo-$version.tar.gz) # you can put several files here
> conf=(etc/foo.conf)
> 
> build() {
>    cd foo-$version
>    ./configure \
>      --prefix=/usr \
>      --sysconfdir=/etc \
>      --localstatedir=/var
>    make
>    make DESTDIR=$PKG install #PKG already defined
> }
> ------------
> 
> You can choose in the conf file if you want to gzip man pages or strip 
> binaries.
> I think maintenance is easier.
> Are you interested to replace your slackbuilds by that (yes/no)?

( ) Yes
(x) No

-RW



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