Re: Conduit arch dependence, redux

[Ken VanDine <ken vandine org>]

Our conary packages for conduit in Foresight work fine.  Our libs go in
libdir as well, (/usr/lib,/usr/lib64) and works fine.  I don't have to
do anything special for the package to install properly, autotools is
doing the right thing.  Also my pkgconfig file gets installed in libdir
as it should, /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/conduit.pc

Not sure why you aren't seeing the same thing.

--Ken

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 09:55 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, all you folks I don't know from synce at all ;).
> 
> I did bring this up in the past on IRC, but wanted to revisit it now
> conduit is maturing.
> 
> The issue is simply this: Conduit is architecture-independent, but its
> install scripts don't act like it is.
> 
> Several distros - including Mandriva - have different libdirs on
> different architectures. On i586 libdir is /usr/lib , on x86_64 libdir
> is /usr/lib64 . So if an app installs files to libdir, it cannot be
> packaged as 'noarch'.
> 
> I currently have a bunch of substitutions in the MDV spec file for
> conduit that cause it to install itself in a proper arch-dependent way -
> basically, it installs its modules to exec_prefix/lib (which is
> always /usr/lib , on both i586 and x86-64) rather than libdir. It also
> puts the pkgconfig file in /usr/share/pkgconfig rather
> than /usr/lib/pkgconfig . It would be nice to have something like this
> adopted upstream, assuming it won't cause problems in other situations.
> Here's the relevant bits from the spec file, for reference:
> 
> # install plugins to /usr/lib regardless of arch: they are arch-independent
> perl -pi -e 's,\$\(libdir\)/conduit,\$\(exec_prefix\)/lib/conduit,g' conduit/modules/Makefile.am
> perl -pi -e 's,\$\(libdir\)/conduit,\$\(exec_prefix\)/lib/conduit,g' conduit/modules/*/Makefile.am
> perl -pi -e 's,\$\(libdir\)/conduit,\$\(exec_prefix\)/lib/conduit,g' conduit/modules/*/*/Makefile.am
> 
> # install pkgconfig file to /usr/share/pkgconfig instead of libdir/pkgconfig
> perl -pi -e 's,\$\(libdir\)/pkgconfig,\$\(datadir\)/pkgconfig,g' data/Makefile.am
> 
> # ...and correct the paths in it to match the changes we made above
> perl -pi -e 's.MODULEDIR, \$libdir.MODULEDIR, \$exec_prefix/lib.g' configure.ac
> 
> # correct start_conduit.py for the changes made above
> perl -pi -e 's.LIBDIR, \$libdir.LIBDIR, \$exec_prefix/lib.g' configure.ac
> 
> %build
> %if %svn
> sh ./autogen.sh
> %else
> # redefinition of ACLOCAL is needed because conduit ships its own
> # Awsum Hax0reD .m4 files and a normal aclocal uses the standard ones
> # and breaks build. - AdamW 2007/10
> ACLOCAL="aclocal -I ./m4" autoreconf