Gour wrote:
Matthew Walton (matthew@alledora.co.uk) wrote:
Plenty of ebuilds seem to work from multiple source packages... I can't see a particular difficulty in writing one that installs wxHaskell source and documentation simultaneously.
Thank you for pointing this out. I never came across one.
You probably did, XFree86 uses several tarballs, although admittedly it does expand them all into the same place before building. There is though, as far as I can see, nothing to stop you making your own subdirectories of the build directory and extracting a tarball into each of those, then building and installing each of them as necessary.
I was playing during the 0.30.4 but could not solve sandbox problem since wxhaskell writes into /usr/lib.
Of course, I did it with addwrite /usr/lib and some sed trickery (could not find haddock-base), but wanted to have more clean solution by patching Makefile.
That would be preferable. An install target that supports DESTDIR is a nice preferable solution for most projects. Not necessarily the easiest to implement though, but it depends on the build system.
Although having said that, I can't get wxHaskell stuff to link properly on my Gentoo box at the moment, probably because my OpenGL setup is rather broken.
Do you have some wxhaskell ebuild handy?
No, I installed it by hand. I can have a go at writing an ebuild although if as you say wxHaskell writes into /usr/lib then a Makefile patch is probably in order. As I mentioned though, my wxHaskell is currently a bit broken so I'm going to have to sort that out first. Although I suspect the broken bit might actually be wxWidgets.