[gentoo-dev] Re: Problem writing my first ebuild

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:35:21 -0400
"Chad M. Huneycutt" <chad.huneycutt@×××.org> wrote:

> Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
>  > I'm trying to write an ebuild for "xawdecode", a TV program based on
>  > "xawtv". I've based on xawtv-3.7.2.ebuild, but I have a problem: a few
>  > files, some fonts to go in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, are shared by
>  > this two program, so I can't emerge my application because of a sandbox
>  > write lock. How are we supposed to deal with this kind of
>  > incompatibility ? I've though about patching the Makefile to place the
>  > font somewhere else, but I don't feel it really satisfying.
>
> You are missing a very important point.  Your ebuild should not be writing
> *anything* to the live filesystem.  Everything goes in ${D}
> (/var/tmp/portage/<pkg-name>/image/).  Have you looked at other ebuilds?
> In particular, you should look at some examples of dodir and doins.
>

Ok, I start to understand... I've got something like this, middle-clicked from the original xawtv ebuild:

[...]
src_install() {
        fontdir=${D}/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
        make install \
        prefix=${D}/usr \
        mandir=${D}/usr/share/man \
        resdir=${D}/etc/X11 \
        fontdir=$fontdir || die
[...]

But $fontdir is probably not used in xawdecode Makefiles as it is in xawtv ones. Sorry about this, I think I need to give a closer look to several things before writing things I don't understand. 
No TV tonight ;)

Thanks for your help,

-- Thomas.