Henrik Carlqvist wrote:

> How are things going with your transcode SlackBuild script? I have started
> working on a Makefile framework for installing software with complex
> dependencies. It is being published at http://makepack.sourceforge.net/
> however, at the time of this writing it is only a framework. I haven't
> populated it with rules for so many applications yet and documentation
> remains.

I've started recently to make my first SlackBuilds. While searching for
documentation, I stumbled over this: http://hitek.monespace.net. A french
Slackware fanatic who writes loads of SlackBuild scripts. I contacted the
guy, and we chatted a lot, so I could have a good grasp of the question.

Essentially, he explained me why it is a lot better to build packages as a
normal user, eventually using Debian's fakeroot. So, when you do 'make
install DESTDIR=/tmp/build' or whatever, if it doesn't work out, you don't
end up with a messy install. You simply get a 'Permission denied', and you
try something else. I tried this with about a dozen packages, and I'm
slowly getting accustomed to it.

Maybe in a few week's time, I'll move on to the more complex packages like
mplayer, ffmpeg and transcode. But I prefer to handle dependencies
manually.

Check out http://slackware.tuxfamily.org, I created some space for a
SlackBuild repository. I like the idea behind slacky.it, though too many of
their SlackBuild scripts are full of errors and simply don't work.

You'll hear from all this soon.

Cheers,

Niki Kovacs
--
I'm not as think as you stoned I am.