[gentoo-user] help with ebuild

[gentoo-user] help with ebuild

[maxim wexler]

Hello everybody,

I'd like to write an ebuild for words-1.97, a nifty
latin -> english translator.

In skel.ebuild for LICENSE="" what do I put? Are the
listings in /usr/portage/licenses all possibilities?
Which one do I pick? There doesn't seem to be any
direction in the docs for the words program itself.

-mw


		
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Re: [gentoo-user] help with ebuild

[maxim wexler]

--- Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 11:22 -0800, maxim wexler
> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> > 
> > I'd like to write an ebuild for words-1.97, a
> nifty
> > latin -> english translator.
> > 
> > In skel.ebuild for LICENSE="" what do I put? Are
> the
> > listings in /usr/portage/licenses all
> possibilities?
> > Which one do I pick? There doesn't seem to be any
> > direction in the docs for the words program
> itself.
> > 
> > -mw
> 
> In LICENCE you put the licence that words-1.97 is
> resleased under.
> 
> Post your ebuild somewhere online and we'll take a
> look.

This is all I got so far. The guy who wrote it is
here,

bdragoo@thomasaquinas.edu

but he hasn't replied to me yet.


# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License v2
# $Header: $

# NOTE: The comments in this file are for instruction
and documentation.  
# They're not meant to appear with your final,
production ebuild.  Please
# remember to remove them before submitting or
committing your ebuild.  That
# doesn't mean you can't add your own comments though.

# The 'Header' on the third line should just be left
alone.  When your ebuild
# will be committed to cvs, the details on that line
will be automatically
# generated to contain the correct data.

# inherit lists eclasses to inherit functions from.
Almost all ebuilds should
# inherit eutils, as a large amount of important
functionality has been
# moved there. For example, the $(get_libdir)
mentioned below wont work
# without the following line:
inherit eutils
# A well-used example of an eclass function that needs
eutils is epatch. If
# your source needs patches applied, it's suggested to
put your patch in the
# 'files' directory and use:
#
#   epatch ${FILESDIR}/patch-name-here
#
# eclasses tend to list descriptions of how to use
their functions properly.
# take a look at /usr/portage/eclasses/ for more
examples.

# Short one-line description of this package.
DESCRIPTION="This is a Latin to English translator"

# Homepage, not used by Portage directly but handy for
developer reference
HOMEPAGE="http://users.erols.com/whitaker/wordslux.htm"

# Point to any required sources; these will be
automatically downloaded by
# Portage.
SRC_URI="ftp://petrus.thomasaquinas.edu/pub/linux/words/words-1.97-linux.tar.gz"

# License of the package.  This must match the name of
file(s) in
# /usr/portage/licenses/.  For complex license
combination see the developer
# docs on gentoo.org for details.
LICENSE=""

# The SLOT variable is used to tell Portage if it's OK
to keep multiple
# versions of the same package installed at the same
time.  For example,
# if we have a libfoo-1.2.2 and libfoo-1.3.2 (which is
not compatible
# with 1.2.2), it would be optimal to instruct Portage
to not remove
# libfoo-1.2.2 if we decide to upgrade to
libfoo-1.3.2.  To do this,
# we specify SLOT="1.2" in libfoo-1.2.2 and SLOT="1.3"
in libfoo-1.3.2.
# emerge clean understands SLOTs, and will keep the
most recent version
# of each SLOT and remove everything else.
# Note that normal applications should use SLOT="0" if
possible, since
# there should only be exactly one version installed
at a time.
# DO NOT USE SLOT=""! This tells Portage to disable
SLOTs for this package.
SLOT="0"

# Using KEYWORDS, we can record masking information
*inside* an ebuild 
# instead of relying on an external package.mask file.
 Right now, you should 
# set the KEYWORDS variable for every ebuild so that
it contains the names of 
# all the architectures with which the ebuild works. 
All of the official 
# architectures can be found in the keywords.desc file
which is in 
# /usr/portage/profiles/.  Usually you should just set
this to "~x86".  The ~ 
# in front of the architecture indicates that the
package is new and should be 
# considered unstable until testing proves its
stability.  So, if you've 
# confirmed that your ebuild works on x86 and ppc,
you'd specify: 
# KEYWORDS="~x86 ~ppc"
# Once packages go stable, the ~ prefix is removed.
# For binary packages, use -* and then list the archs
the bin package
# exists for.  If the package was for an x86 binary
package, then
# KEYWORDS would be set like this: KEYWORDS="-* x86"
# DO NOT USE KEYWORDS="*".  This is deprecated and
only for backward
# compatibility reasons.
KEYWORDS="~x86"

# Comprehensive list of any and all USE flags
leveraged in the ebuild,
# with the exception of any ARCH specific flags, i.e.
"ppc", "sparc",
# "x86" and "alpha".  This is a required variable.  If
the ebuild doesn't 
# use any USE flags, set to "".
IUSE="X gnome"

# A space delimited list of portage features to
restrict. man 5 ebuild
# for details.  Usually not needed.
#RESTRICT="nostrip"

# Build-time dependencies, such as
#    ssl? ( >=dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6b )
#    >=dev-lang/perl-5.6.1-r1
# It is advisable to use the >= syntax show above, to
reflect what you
# had installed on your system when you tested the
package.  Then
# other users hopefully won't be caught without the
right version of
# a dependency.
DEPEND=""

# Run-time dependencies, same as DEPEND if RDEPEND
isn't defined:
#RDEPEND=""

# Source directory; the dir where the sources can be
found (automatically
# unpacked) inside ${WORKDIR}.  The default value for
S is ${WORKDIR}/${P}
# If you don't need to change it, leave the S= line
out of the ebuild
# to keep it tidy.
S=${WORKDIR}/${P}

src_compile() {
	# Most open-source packages use GNU autoconf for
configuration.
	# The quickest (and preferred) way of running
configure is:
	econf || die "econf failed"
	#
	# You could use something similar to the following
lines to
	# configure your package before compilation.  The "||
die" portion
	# at the end will stop the build process if the
command fails.
	# You should use this at the end of critical commands
in the build
	# process.  (Hint: Most commands are critical, that
is, the build
	# process should abort if they aren't successful.)
	#./configure \
	#	--host=${CHOST} \
	#	--prefix=/usr \
	#	--infodir=/usr/share/info \
	#	--mandir=/usr/share/man || die "./configure failed"
	# Note the use of --infodir and --mandir, above. This
is to make
	# this package FHS 2.2-compliant.  For more
information, see
	#   http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

	# emake (previously known as pmake) is a script that
calls the
	# standard GNU make with parallel building options
for speedier
	# builds (especially on SMP systems).  Try emake
first.  It might
	# not work for some packages, because some makefiles
have bugs
	# related to parallelism, in these cases, use emake
-j1 to limit
	# make to a single process.  The -j1 is a visual clue
to others
	# that the makefiles have bugs that have been worked
around.
	emake || die "emake failed"
}

src_install() {
	# You must *personally verify* that this trick
doesn't install
	# anything outside of DESTDIR; do this by reading and
	# understanding the install part of the Makefiles.
	# This is the preferred way to install.
	make DESTDIR=${D} install || die

	# For Makefiles that don't make proper use of
DESTDIR, setting
	# prefix is often an alternative.  However if you do
this, then
	# you also need to specify mandir and infodir, since
they were
	# passed to ./configure as absolute paths (overriding
the prefix
	# setting).
	#make \
	#	prefix=${D}/usr \
	#	mandir=${D}/usr/share/man \
	#	infodir=${D}/usr/share/info \
	#	libdir=${D}/usr/$(get_libdir) \
	#	install || die
	# Again, verify the Makefiles!  We don't want
anything falling
	# outside of ${D}.

	# The portage shortcut to the above command is
simply:
	#
	#einstall || die
}

> 
> Also the Dev-handbook would be useful
>
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml
> 
> -Lares



		
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