Re: Beginners questions...

[Greg Schafer <gschafer zip com au>]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:15:49PM -0800, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> begin  John Ross Hunt  quotation:
> > >  The question is which tarballs should I download? (For example:
> > >  I'll download the latest version of garnome, which gnome2 version
> > >  should I get?)
> > 
> > Probably the easiest way is to uncomment the GARCHIVEDIR variable in
> > the top-level gar.conf.mk and run 'make paranoid-checksum'.  That
> > will download and checksum all the required source files into a
> > single directory.
> 
> 	The GARCHIVEDIR does nothing to the checksum rule.
> 
> 	Your best bet is to set GARCHIVEDIR to some place where you
> want all of the source tarballs downloaded on your fast-network
> machine.  Say, ~/garchive/$(DISTNAME)/ for a good default.
> 
> 	Now cd into meta/gnome-desktop and do a "make deep-garchive".
> Now you can burn that ~/garchive dir to CD or zip disk or
> what-have-you, and take it home.  At home, put it in ~/garchive on
> your build machine, and set GARCHIVEDIR to ~/garchive/$(DISTNAME)/
> there as well.
> 
> 	Alternately, you can just go to meta/gnome-desktop and do a
> "make deep-checksum" and just re-tar-up the garnome dir and take that
> home with you.
> 
> 	The above advice will grab ONLY the stuff needed for the
> gnome-desktop metagarball.  If you want to slurp EVERYTHING, do what
> Mr. Hunt recommended, and run "make paranoid-foo" where foo is
> garchive or checksum depending on which technique you are trying.

But keep in mind the dubster hasn't yet included the "deep" rule in
garnome.

I just made a simple patch and attached it.

Greg

diff -uNr garnome-0.19.3.orig/gar.mk garnome-0.19.3/gar.mk
--- garnome-0.19.3.orig/gar.mk	2002-12-06 21:08:01.000000000 +1100
+++ garnome-0.19.3/gar.mk	2002-12-08 11:22:27.000000000 +1100
@@ -98,6 +98,12 @@
 post-%:
 	@true
 
+# Call any arbitrary rule recursively
+deep-%: %
+	@for i in $(LIBDEPS) $(DEPENDS) $(BUILDDEPS); do \
+		$(MAKE) -C ../../$$i $@; \
+	done
+
 # ========================= MAIN RULES ========================= 
 # The main rules are the ones that the user can specify as a
 # target on the "make" command-line.  Currently, they are: