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| As you can see, there's not much work to be done; everything is hidden in other makefiles and abstracted to the point where you only need to specify a few variables. | As you can see, there's not much work to be done; everything is hidden in other makefiles and abstracted to the point where you only need to specify a few variables. | ||
| - | * PKG_NAME -The name of the package, as seen via menuconfig and ipkg | + | * PKG_NAME - The name of the package, as seen via menuconfig and ipkg |
| - | * PKG_VERSION -The upstream version number that we're downloading | + | * PKG_VERSION - The upstream version number that we're downloading |
| - | * PKG_RELEASE -The version of this package Makefile | + | * PKG_RELEASE - The version of this package Makefile |
| - | * PKG_BUILD_DIR -Where to compile the package | + | * PKG_BUILD_DIR - Where to compile the package |
| - | * PKG_SOURCE -The filename of the original sources | + | * PKG_SOURCE - The filename of the original sources |
| - | * PKG_SOURCE_URL -Where to download the sources from | + | * PKG_SOURCE_URL - Where to download the sources from |
| - | * PKG_MD5SUM -A checksum to validate the download | + | * PKG_MD5SUM - A checksum to validate the download |
| - | * PKG_CAT -How to decompress the sources (zcat, bzcat, unzip) | + | * PKG_CAT - How to decompress the sources (zcat, bzcat, unzip) |
| - | * PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS -Packages that need to be built before this package, but are not required at runtime. Uses the same syntax as DEPENDS below. | + | * PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS - Packages that need to be built before this package, but are not required at runtime. Uses the same syntax as DEPENDS below. |
| + | * PKG_INSTALL - Setting it to "1" will call the package's original "make install" with prefix set to PKG_INSTALL_DIR | ||
| + | * PKG_INSTALL_DIR - Where "make install" copies the compiled files | ||
| - | The PKG_* variables define where to download the package from; @SF is a special keyword for downloading packages from sourceforge. The md5sum is used to verify the package was downloaded correctly and PKG_BUILD_DIR defines where to find the package after the sources are uncompressed into $(BUILD_DIR). | + | The PKG_* variables define where to download the package from; @SF is a special keyword for downloading packages from sourceforge. The md5sum is used to verify the package was downloaded correctly and PKG_BUILD_DIR defines where to find the package after the sources are uncompressed into $(BUILD_DIR). PKG_INSTALL_DIR defines where the files will be copied after calling "make install" (set with the PKG_INSTALL variable), and after that you can package them in the install section. |
| At the bottom of the file is where the real magic happens, "BuildPackage" is a macro setup by the earlier include statements. BuildPackage only takes one argument directly -- the name of the package to be built, in this case "bridge". All other information is taken from the define blocks. This is a way of providing a level of verbosity, it's inherently clear what the DESCRIPTION variable in Package/bridge is, which wouldn't be the case if we passed this information directly as the Nth argument to BuildPackage. | At the bottom of the file is where the real magic happens, "BuildPackage" is a macro setup by the earlier include statements. BuildPackage only takes one argument directly -- the name of the package to be built, in this case "bridge". All other information is taken from the define blocks. This is a way of providing a level of verbosity, it's inherently clear what the DESCRIPTION variable in Package/bridge is, which wouldn't be the case if we passed this information directly as the Nth argument to BuildPackage. | ||
doc/devel/packages.txt · Last modified: 2013/02/05 12:29 by conxuro