[abs-noob] how to deal with Makefile.config options

kozaki · 2005-11-25 11:08:53

Hi Archies,

My question may have been answered well before. If so sorry and please just tell me where it lies :oops:

I'm playing a bit with abs and makepkg on misc packages. This is until I feel a bit more confident to use it for less misc packages & the kernel.

Now I'm on emelfm2. it's INSTALL file says one has to edit the Makefile.config for certain options like

# setting this to 1 makes the default file-pane layout "horizontal"
PANES_HORIZONTAL ?=0

What am I suppose to do to include such a modified option before launching makepkg ?

The PKGBUILD's default build lines are :

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  make PREFIX=/usr
  make PREFIX=$startdir/pkg/usr install
}

T-Dawg · 2005-11-25 11:41:13

What am I suppose to do to include such a modified option before launching makepkg ?

You have to put it in the build section. Something like

grep PANES_HORIZONTAL /path/to/file |sed 's|0|1|' -i /path/to/file

tomk · 2005-11-25 11:49:07

You need to use sed to edit the file - something like this:

  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  sed '/PANES_HORIZONTAL/ s/0/1/' -i Makefile.config
  make PREFIX=/usr
  make PREFIX=$startdir/pkg/usr install

I'm still only getting the hang of sed myself - have a look through some other PKGBUILDs for other examples.

kozaki · 2005-11-25 15:50:34

Thank you guys.
That's what I read in the wiki --with more details, but a noob sometimes needs to read it twice or more before "getting into"

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