[dundee] sed

[Nistur]

Thanks for the help, I finally got it to compile... the only problem is 
that gnome-panel won't take it, says something about not being able to 
load OAFIID_GNOME-Ticker or something. *shrug* I guess I'll just forget 
about it.

Thanks anyway, I have learned that it isn't quite that scary :) So I 
guess it was worthwhile


James Le Cuirot wrote:
> Hi Nistur,
>
> This is a common problem on Gentoo. In general, we try to get the
> problem fixed upstream since it is actually standard practise to support
> DESTDIR in the following manner.
>
> make install DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/sys-lib/gcc-4.2.0/image
>
> Fixing this for yourself isn't too hard though. I don't think inserting
> a line is necessary but I'll tell you how to do it anyway. sed can
> insert lines but it needs to have a condition for doing so, otherwise
> it'll add a line before every existing line. You can't tell it to only
> insert on the first line or to only insert before the first match of
> something as far as I know. Here's another way to do it. There may be a
> simpler way but I haven't worked it out yet!
>
> echo 'pkgprefix=`pwd`'"\n`cat Makefile`" > Makefile
>
> The separate '' and "" quotes are needed because you don't want the
> first `` to be evaluated now but you do want the second `` to be
> evaluated now. Now for sed. As I said above, I don't think you need to
> insert a line because it sounds like pacman calls make while specifying
> a DESTDIR anyway. So what you would do is something like this.
>
> sed -i 's:$(PYTHONCODEDIR):$(DESTDIR)$(PYTHONCODEDIR):' Makefile
>
> You might need to make it more specific depending on how PYTHONCODEDIR
> is used elsewhere. It may just be easier to somehow override the value
> of PYTHONCODEDIR instead. For more complicated situations, patches are
> usually needed.
>
> James
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:48:30 +0100
> Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm sure everyone has at some point heard me herald the beauties of
>> Arch Linux and the coolest package manager in the world, pacman,
>> especially when combined with ABS. Anyway, I was looking for an RSS
>> ticker and the only (first maybe?) one that showed up was GNUsTicker,
>> I later found it only had a 0.1 release and then died in 2005. I
>> thought great, if it works (screencaps seem to say it does) then I
>> can even start giving back to the community and create a PKGBUILD
>> file for the Archlinux User Repository and not have to worry too much
>> about maintaining it. However, the build system runs in ways that I
>> didn't realise, it makes a fake install, well, instead of make
>> install, it basically installs to /var/abs/local/$(pkgname)/pkg as
>> the root, rather than / the Makefile for GNUsTicker however chmods a
>> file in /usr/libexec/GNUsTicker Now, the bit I need help with, how on
>> earth do I get it to chmod the correct file? I am assuming using sed
>> (hence subject) but sed, to me at least looks like someone got angry
>> with a keyboard. I (think I) want a sed script to stick a variable at
>> a sensible point in a makefile and change a line lower down.
>> eg.
>>
>> ...
>> prefix = /usr
>> ...
>>     chmod a+x $(PYTHONCODEDIR)/gnusapplet.py
>> ...
>>
>> would hopefully be changed to:
>>
>> ...
>> prefix = /usr
>> pkgprefix=`pwd`
>> ...
>>     chmod a+x $(pkgprefix)$(PYTHONCODEDIR)/gnusapplet.py
>> ...
>>
>> Thank you to anyone who can help
>>     
>
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