[Slackbuilds-users] making a SlackBuild for golly

[Glenn Becker]

> There is likely an issue here:
>
> VERSION=${VERSION:-2.4-src}
>
> /sbin/makepkg -l y -c n 
> $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
>
>
> Willy is quite correct regarding the "-src" bit; the pkgtools reverse 
> the long package name then count the dashes backwards, so that dash 
> before "src" makes the version "src" and the package name "golly--2.4". 
> which brings us to the second issue - you are setting VERSION=-2.4 and 
> then running makepkg with "$PRGNAM-$VERSION" - meaning you have two 
> dashes.

Oh, great ... I'm looking forward to working on this when I get home!

Thanks,

/G

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Glenn Becker - burningc at sdf.org
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