Trying to write an ebuild

[tyme]

1) I don't understand this question, please elaborate

2) do the CVS download manually and you will see what directory it puts it into :-) (there should be instructions on how to do CVS on the clanbomber webpage-if not i can explain later-at work now, no linux box to test it out on)

[phunni]

1) The cvs instructions on sourceforge (arrived at by using the CVS link on the clanbomber page) say that you need to know a module name in order to perform a checkout

 

As a result of not understanding this - I have not been able to do a manual checkout.

 

Also, whenever I have tried to log in, I have had erratic success - sometimes it seems to work and sometimes I am told that:

 

 

cvs [login aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

 

Not sure why this is happening or if it might screw up my ebuild

[tyme]

oh, that module thingy...i would guess clanbomber ( :?: )

 

as for that cvs login aborted, i used to get that when i was trying to get slicker. i'm not sure what causes it, but i don't think it's something you can fix-i think it's something on sourceforges end.

[phunni]

oh, that module thingy...i would guess clanbomber ( :?: )

 

Hmmmm - that's what I guessed to, but it didn't like it

[tyme]

hrm....then i dunno, and since i'm rebuilding my box right now (well, it's building while i'm at work) i may not be able to help you find an answer till tomorrow or somethin'....

[phunni]

Made some progress - I have got it downloading from cvs and going on from there. It's now failing at the configure stage:

creating cache ./config.cache

./configure: line 525: syntax error near unexpected token `config.h'

./configure: line 525: `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'

 

 

I suppose this could be because I'm using cvs code - but I'm not sure

 

BTW I really do think ths is actually progress ;-)

[tyme]

BTW I really do think ths is actually progress ;-)

hmmm....maybe... ;-) i'd send an e-mail off to the clanbomber developer and see if he might be able to help you with that error.

[phunni]

OK - update, I now have ane build that will download from CVS and attempt to install it. It is presently as follows:

 

# Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

# $Header: $ 













DESCRIPTION="Bomberman clone - fantastic game!"

# SRC_URI="http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/clanbomber/clanbomber-1.02a.tar.gz"

HOMEPAGE="http://clanbomber.sourceforge.net"

LICENSE="GPL-2"

SLOT="0"

KEYWORDS="~x86"

IUSE=""

ECVS_SERVER="cvs.clanbomber.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/clanbomber"

ECVS_MODULE="ClanBomber"

ECVS_TOP_DIR="${DISTDIR}/cvs-src/clanbomber" 



inherit cvs





S="${WORKDIR}/${ECVS_MODULE}" 



DEPEND="sys-libs/zlib

app-games/clanlib

media-libs/hermes"







src_compile() {



echo "CVS downloaded - preparing to configure"

cd ${S}



export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1



sh autogen.sh

econf || die

echo "clanbomber configured - about to compile"

# emake || die



make || die



}



src_install () {

echo "Installing Clanbomber..."

# cd ${S}

einstall || die

# make install || die





}

 

Take particular note of src_compile and the possibility of using either make or emake.

 

Now this is the current situation:

 

1) If I run this as it is, the build seems to largely succeed but I get file permission errors (on /dev/dsp) - nothing gets installed

 

2) If I run this ebuild using emake instead of make then the build fails towards the end with errors

 

3) If I cd to the directory containing the unpacked source and run ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make then the build wroks perfectly and I could install it from there.

 

You may be asking

why doesn't he just do number three and install it that way?

 

Simply because I have spent so much time on this that now it WILL be installed via my ebuild :banghead:

 

I'm not going to give up on my first attempt

 

If anyone has any clues at to why I'm getting these results - please let me know