[Gambas-user] How to make your gambas project compile using autoconf tools

[Laurent Carlier]

Le Friday 20 June 2008 10:17:01 Stefano Palmeri, vous avez écrit :
> Il giovedì 19 giugno 2008 23:52:01 M0E Lnx ha scritto:
> > One minor problem though... I just did my application with this
> > after some testing... here are the results
> >
> > running configure without arguments does not install the binary to the
> > system
> >
> > running it with the --prefix=/usr argument results in a new directory
> > in /usr called usr... so the binary really ends up in
> > /usr/usr/vpackager.gambas
> >
> > How do I fix this?
>
> I confirm. This seems to be a bug. If I run
> ./configure without arguments then it installs
> the binary in:
>
> /usr/local/usr/local/bin/myprogram.gambas.
>
> instead of the expected:
>
> /usr/local/bin/myprogram.gambas
>
> You have to wait for the boss fix ;-)
>
> Stefano
>
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Stefano Palmeri <rospolosco at ...152...>
>
> wrote:
> > > Il giovedì 19 giugno 2008 23:34:32 M0E Lnx ha scritto:
> > >> Sweet mother of God!...
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I did not know that
> > >>
> > >> Very nice. Thank you for providing such a kool way to do this
> > >
> > > Not me. Thanks Benoit and Laurent Carlier.
> > >
> > >> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Stefano Palmeri
> > >> <rospolosco at ...152...>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >> > Il giovedì 19 giugno 2008 21:47:48 M0E Lnx ha scritto:
> > >> >> I've been writing gambas for a while now... continuosly developing
> > >> >> 2 applications.
> > >> >> I'd like to distribute my software in a way that the end user can
> > >> >> compile in a way similar to how the gambas tarball compiles.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> ./configure && make && make install
> > >> >>
> > >> >> instead of distributing binaries.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Does anyone have a clue how this is done?
> > >> >>
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> > >> > In the IDE menu go to:
> > >> >
> > >> > Project --> Make --> Installation Package
> > >> >
> > >> > and then select "Autotools" when the wizard asks
> > >> > for the type of package you want to create.
> > >> >
> > >> > Stefano
> > >> >
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Thanks for the report, it should be fixed in svn commit 1419.

Gambas executable is saved in sbin dir and take care of prefix.

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