Re: Gnome on Solaris 8 w/depot

["Ben Taylor" <sol7x86 hotmail com>]

Good explanation of Depot.

WRT Solaris, you've got a somewhat sticky problem.  I don't know
a lot about the internals of GNOME, but I'm pretty sure that when
you stick the prefix for gnome in gnome-libs to be 
/usr/depot/sol8/gnome-libs/1.2.2, the rest of the gnome software
(assuming you don't reset the prefix) will try to align itself
down in that directory.  And you definitely don't want that.

I think what you could do is use /usr/local as your prefix and
then when installing the software to the depot, reset the prefix
value to /usr/depot/sol8/package/version.  This way, the correct
locations will be off of /usr/local for the purposes of the build
and lookups for dependencies, but the installation will go where
you want it to.  By doing this, (and creative munging of the
*config and *Conf.sh files,  set the runtime linker to look at /usr/local - 
ie -R/usr/local/lib for the various LIBS flags)
you can point everything in the right place, have all the lookups
for things off the main tree find themselves, and benefit from the
use of depot.

Personally, what I do when I build is overwrite the existing package
with the "make install", build the new package, pkgrm the old package
and pkgadd the new one.  Works pretty well.  If something blows up,
I can always fall back to the previous package by the pkgrm/pkgadd
trick.

Hope this helps.  It does sound kind of tricky, and I'd be willing to
bet in general this will work, except for code which make hard coded
references to the prefix in the various Makefiles.

Ben


> The way depot works is this: when you build a package you change the
> prefix.
>
> So for gnome-libs (or any package) I'd do this:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/depot/sol8/gnome-libs/1.2.2
>
> this would make gnome-libs target /usr/depot/sol8/gnome-libs/1.2.2 and
> install all it's binaries, data files etc...
>
> not I goto /usr/local and run depot. Depot reads it's configuration file
> that says "gnome-libs is located /usr/depot/sol8/gnome-libs/1.2.2". It
> them makes symlinks so gnome-linbs is now in /usr/local. after depot is
> ran basically gnome-libs will have all it's files in /usr/local just as
> though I built gnome-libs with the --prefix=/usr/local.
>
> Why use depot?
>
> /usr/depot is out main app storage directory.
> /usr/depot/sol8 is out solaris 8 app directory. We also have sol26 sol7
> etc.
> then ther is the standard <packagename>/<version>.
>
> So if we upgrade a package (say gnome-libs 1.2.2 comes out and we have
> 1.2.1 installed) all we do is re-build gnome-libs with a new --prefix for
> what version it is. Change depots config so it points to the new gnome-lib
> then re-run depot.
>
> We have SO many packages on out systems that managmentof so many packes
> getts to crazy to just dump them all in /usr/local .
>
> I'd rather us something else like rpm or <whatever> but it's already to
> late. My choice was shot down. I have to work with depot.
>
> So my problem is since every package has different targets I'm thinking
> that gnome-session is looking in /usr/depot/sol8/gnome-core/1.x.x instead
> of /usr/local. So I'm asking of there is a way around this? Can I just set
> a var in the enviroment? is the COnfigure script hard wiring the
> prefix? is so any way I can override it so it ignores the prefix and goes
> straight to /usr/local as it's prefix???
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Ben Taylor wrote:
>
> >
> > hmm.  I don't use depot, and spend a good amount of time compiling,
> > testing, and packaging GNOME for Solaris8/X86.  I haven't had any
> > problems building gnome, other than the regular Solaris-isms that
> > I have to fix (I don't use LD_LIBRARY_PATH..., so I have to manually
> > add -R<libdir> to the packages which haven't accepted my patches
> > to correctly build automatically for Solaris).
> >
> > >From: Bryan Whitehead <driver rccacm org>
> >
> > >I'm having tons of trouble getting gnome working on Solaris 8. I'm 
> >trying
> > >the "stable" source from gnome.org.
> > >
> > >The main problem is it can't find the system menu's, or icons, etc. >IS
> > >there anyway I can tell GNOME thru the enviroment vars where to >look?
> > >
> > >I've read allot of FAQ's and am getting no-where... :(
> >
> > Did you read Paul Barnfathers page? check out
> > http://www.clanger9.demon.co.uk/computer/gnome or my page at
> > http://www.clark.net/pub/bent/Solaris8-X86/GNOME
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > 
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