[solved] best way to install a costum app

[DaNe]

what is best way to install a costum souch way that when i want to remove it i can do it clean?


ps: the app that i want to install is http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk/

[daschapa]

Normally, all apps' docs tells you where it puts those files installed when you "make install".
Read the docs carefully to know this.
In the other hand, keep in mind that most applications installs all files in one of the next two directory hierarchies:

• /usr/
• /usr/local/

In both cases, for both directory hierarchy, you should check the folders:

• bin/
  share/
  lib/

There, you have to look for representative filenames for the application you want to delete.
Another thing you can do is making "make install" from an X console, then copy and paste the list of installed files in a txt. With this info you'll know how to clean it.
So:

• Read the docs.
• Check your lib, share and bin directories
• Save a log of installed files

I hope this to be useful. Enjoy.

[tuam]

Write an ebuild for it, and install it with emerge

FF,

Daniel

[twstd3bc]

Write an ebuild for it, and install it with emerge :wink:

FF,

Daniel

Here's a stab at it, say cilk-5.4.6.ebuild

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# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

DESCRIPTION="Cilk is a language for multithreaded parallel programming based on ANSI C."
HOMEPAGE="http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk/"
SRC_URI="http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk/${P}.tar.gz"

LICENSE="GPL"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="amd64 ~x86"
IUSE="doc"

DEPEND=""
RDEPEND=""

src_install() {
	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "Install failed."
	dodoc doc/manual.pdf NEWS README THANKS
}

This won't compile if "-pipe" is in your CFLAGS because during the build an executable in the support directory is run with the CFLAGS but does not understand -pipe (and probably other stuff). So this ebuild needs work.

[twstd3bc]

Oh, I see it's the cilkc command that doesn't accept the "-pipe" option. The cilkc program is used during the build, so you have to adjust your CFLAGS accordingly. This is a very, very interesting program. I'm going to play with it for a while.

[DaNe]

i installed in local anyway(and i noticed that to with the pipe)

is that ebuild a sketch or it works in fact?

[easy target]

is that ebuild a sketch or it works in fact?

Yes, it works and tests fine under my ~amd64.

I updated ebuild, added checks for use-flags 'doc' and 'examples' and filtered '-pipe' and '-ggdb'.

I don't know if there are other dependencies than latex for creating docs. AFAIK, cilk need threads, so maybe this ebuild should check for them.

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# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

inherit flag-o-matic

DESCRIPTION="Language for multithreaded parallel programming based on
ANSI C."
HOMEPAGE="http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk/"
SRC_URI="http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk/${P}.tar.gz"

LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="amd64 ~x86"
IUSE="doc examples"

DEPEND=""
RDEPEND="doc? virtual/latex-base"

pkg_setup() {
	filter-flags "-pipe"
	filter-flags "-ggdb"
}

src_install() {
	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "Install failed."
	if use doc; then
		dodoc NEWS README THANKS
		insinto /usr/share/doc/"${PF}"
		doins doc/manual.pdf
	fi

	if use examples; then
		insinto /usr/share/doc/"${PF}"/examples
		doins examples/*.cilk
		doins examples/*.c
		doins examples/*.h
	fi
}