[Slackbuilds-users] A little helps with packaging C software which doesn't use make or autotools?

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 02/03/18 12:00, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>> I am trying to package usbrelay (https://github.com/darrylb123/usbrelay)
>> for SBo - a very useful little utility to control cheap USB relays. The
>> instructions at the page above only include the following step:
>>
>> # gcc -o usbrelay usbrelay.c -lhidapi-libusb
>>
>> which works fine.
>>
>> I'm not sure what or where to include in usbrelay.SlackBuild. Would the
>> above go instead of the whole lot below?:
>>
>> # Your application will probably need different configure flags;
>> # these are provided as an example only.
>> # Be sure to build only shared libraries unless there's some need for
>> # static.
>> CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
>> CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
>> ./configure \
>>    --prefix=/usr \
>>    --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
>>    --sysconfdir=/etc \
>>    --localstatedir=/var \
>>    --mandir=/usr/man \
>>    --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
>>    --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
>>
>> # Compile the application and install it into the $PKG directory
>> make
>> make install DESTDIR=$PKG
>>
>>
>>
>> How do we replicate the "make install DESTDIR=$PKG" step?
> 
> There's a Makefile, so you can use
> 
> CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
> CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
> make usbrelay
> make install DESTDIR=$PKG

Thank you - that's brilliant!