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

[Ron]

Stefano Palmeri schreef:
> Il venerdì 20 giugno 2008 12:25:08 Laurent Carlier ha scritto:
>   
>> 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.
>>
>> ++
>>
>>     
>
> Laurent, don't you think it should be better that the default
> destination of the executable was /usr/local/bin?
>
> /sbin often is not in the $PATH of normal users.
>
> My little opinion :-)
>
> Stefano
>
>   

/sbin is reserved for superuser/root commands (hence the s), and even 
only those who must be available during a singleuser mode, aka to repair 
disks etc.
/usr/sbin is reserved for the rest of the root commands.

/usr/local/bin is for all third party software, so it belongs there...

Regards,
Ron.