<HTML><BODY><p style="margin-top: 0px;" dir="ltr">Lol, what an adventure</p>
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<p dir="ltr">--<br> Thanks<br> Brian</p>
</div>Friday, 14 August 2020, 04:16PM -07:00 from Bruce <a href="mailto:adamnt42@gmail.com">adamnt42@gmail.com</a>:<br><br><blockquote id="mail-app-auto-quote" cite="15974469790000020452" style="border-left:1px solid #0878BD; margin:0px 0px 0px 10px; padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;">
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On 15/8/20 6:50 am, Brian G wrote:<br>
> 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?<br>
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Aha! Now we are getting into the packager! Haha heehee dribble dribble.<br>
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The IDE packager doesn't actually create the installation package. <br>
Depending on the package type and a whole lot of weird gambasian <br>
incantations. But, for example to create a Fedora style RPM it builds a <br>
SPEC file and then invokes rpmbuild to create the package(s).<br>
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rpmbuild uses its' own configuration files and incantations to build the <br>
package which may "overrule" certain things in the SPEC file or in the <br>
CLI options in the call from the IDE.<br>
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Further, when the package is installed the user (as root) can overrule <br>
things specified in the package! In particular there is an option called <br>
--prefix that tells the installer to use a different place to put thiings.<br>
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It's better to think of the "/usr/lib" in the IDE packager as a <br>
"suggestion" rather than the truth. It is only what gambas "thinks" <br>
should be a good place to put things.<br>
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... and let's not talk about flatpaks and the like, which one of our <br>
guys is working on. Last month he had thick black hair, now what little <br>
is left is very gray!<br>
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b<br>
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