Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild for xbatt

[Damon M. Conway]

>This is incorrect.  You need to get all files installed into ${D}, the
>Portage temporary directory, rather than install to the root filesystem
>directly.  Look at any of our other ebuilds in the Portage tree for
>examples of how to do  this;
>
>basically, you study the Makefile and see if you can override DESTDIR or
>prefix to redirect the install somewhere else.

Allright, here's an updated ebuild for xbatt.

Damon

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# Copyright 2001 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
# Author Damon Conway <damon@×××××.net> 

A=${P}.tar.gz
S=${WORKDIR}/${P}
DESCRIPTION="Notebook battery indicataor for X"
SRC_URI="http://www.clave.gr.jp/~eto/xbatt/${A}"
HOMEPAGE=""

DEPEND="virtual/x11"

src_compile() {
    try xmkmf
    try make
}

src_install () {
    try make DESTDIR=${D} install
}