[Gambas-user] Test Module, First try

[Brian G]

Lol, what an adventure
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Thanks
Brian Friday, 14 August 2020, 04:16PM -07:00 from Bruce  adamnt42 at gmail.com :

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>On 15/8/20 6:50 am, Brian G wrote:
> The ide if used to build an installation package, seems to always install the library to a subdirectory of the /usr/lib/gambas3 by default ... so I am a little confused?
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>Aha! Now we are getting into the packager! Haha heehee dribble dribble.
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>The IDE packager doesn't actually create the installation package. 
>Depending on the package type and a whole lot of weird gambasian 
>incantations. But, for example to create a Fedora style RPM it builds a 
>SPEC file and then invokes rpmbuild to create the package(s).
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>rpmbuild uses its' own configuration files and incantations to build the 
>package which may "overrule" certain things in the SPEC file or in the 
>CLI options in the call from the IDE.
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>Further, when the package is installed the user (as root) can overrule 
>things specified in the package! In particular there is an option called 
>--prefix that tells the installer to use a different place to put thiings.
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>It's better to think of the "/usr/lib" in the IDE packager as a 
>"suggestion" rather than the truth. It is only what gambas "thinks" 
>should be a good place to put things.
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>... and let's not talk about flatpaks and the like, which one of our 
>guys is working on. Last month he had thick black hair, now what little 
>is left is very gray!
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>b
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