You don't need anything like icon or desktop files for libraries.

Is there some thing wrong?

Btw. i have created ZENBUILD folder in side that path. Still same.

But how to test them if they are working or is it assumed that it will work. I know to know ff it works, install the package which is dependent on it and see from there. But tats later part. With out doign that way?

For libraries the only possibility is to test software that depends on it. You might find "libraries" that include/need desktop file and icon, but those aren't real libraries anymore.

If anybody gets problems with your lib there's the maintainer in the buildfile and he'll contact you and might ask you to change configure variables, etc

Like I contacted e.g. gmg coz of the pygtk library.

Great...

Seems like buildpkg -g seems giving some problem. See my previous 2 posts.

Do you have spaces in your dir names? Don't.

Let me paste you the whole thing here:



Btw, this is where this dir exits:
/mnt/Personal_Data/Zenwalk Projects/Empathy/Empathy Deps/telepathy deps/gst-plugins-farsight-0.12.9/gst-plugins-farsight-0.12.9

Seems like yes few top dir has spaces in b/w, But why such problem?

What about $PWD

Try it in ~.

Should i remove the spaces and try again? But again why such problem?

Try e.b. installpkg /some/path with space

You'll get a problem coz installpkg thinks after the space begins a new argument, but it's still the same path. And that's buildpkg's problem. I assume without knowing its internals that it doesn't use "cp '/some/path with space'", but "cp /some/path with space", so here there are e.g. 3 arguments.

Ok then, ill put some char in b/w.

Thanks for answers guys.

Just wondering, do packagers get email account in Zenwalk? some thing like xyz@zenwalk.org
I wud love to have one

hey guys,

Now i created the ZenBuild file. But if i uncomment out source row and give a url there. The buildpkg starts to download it. But i have already downloaded it. So now, how to make buildpkg package that source and compile and give me 2 folders viz pkg and src ?

I have the ZENBUILD dir inside the source code folder. So i hope u got it now. The source code is in the parent dri where Zenbuild script exists. So i want builpkg to take the parent folder contents to build package.

OK,

I un-tar the source to begin with to be able to look at the INSTALL/README files and run ./configure --help The directory structure I use for all my compiling is as below, the source being initially extracted to the last directory shown:
/home/max/compiles/somepackagename/somepackageversion/somepackagesource

When I'm ready to create the ZENBUILD and afterwards the package, I cd .. to the directory above - so I am no longer in the source directory, I am here:
/home/max/compiles/somepackagename/somepackageversion

It is there that I create the ZENBUILD with buildpkg -g and enter in the variables and any modifications needed to compile the package. You could take the source tarball you've already downloaded and put it in that same directory with the ZENBUILD, or as you've found let buildpkg download it again for you. Buildpkg will create the necessary pkg and src directories for you.

If the ZENBUILD is correct, you should be able to copy that one ZENBUILD into any directory, run buildpkg -zx as root (run man buildpkg for other options) and end up with the source and package files automagically downloaded and generated for you.

If the downloaded file is yet in that directory buildpkg won't redownload it otherwise it will.

So you create your Zenbuild
Execute buildpkg
Execute su -c ./build-xxxxxx.sh 2>&1 | tee build-.....log