Re: [LAD] Auto-wah plugin

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:42:12 +0200
Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:09:27PM +0200, Renato wrote:
>
> > Hello, I've packaged this plugin for Archlinux, it's now in the AUR
>
> Thanks ! It's a bit unfortunate you acted so quickly - the plugin
> is still in a 'beta' stage and following releases could well be
> incompatible. This is no big deal for people who install from
> source, but could generate some trouble for the others.
>
> > btw it would be good if in 'make install' the necessary files are
> > copied to $(DESTDIR)/pathtowherecopyfiles rather than
> > simply /pathtowherecopyfiles ; this surely makes packaging much
> > easier on Arch
>
> How should this be split up ? AFAIK there's only one place to
> install LADPSA plugins, and the usual /usr or /usr/local
> separation is not used. But I could be wrong about this.
>

Well, I don't know about LADSPA plugins, but the fact is that in Arch
for building from source in a pacman-aware (pacman is Arch's package
manager) manner, you need the DESTDIR option... infact you first
install all the files with the exact same direcotry tree as would
do 'make install' but, instead of in root, in a working directory...
i.e. you do
'make DESTDIR=/pathtotmpdir install'
Then you point pacman to /pathtotmpdir, so he knows what to install and
where on the system and keeps neatly track of it (you can then easily
remove the package).

So for Archers the DESTDIR is important, but on the other hand it's
easy to patch a Makefile if it doesn't have the DESTDIR option, so no
real big problem for now... just a heads up for the future.

> > and also btw, good plugin - I've used it with good results with the
> > settings suggested by Gabriel :)
>
> Fine !
>
> Ciao,
>

ciao,
Renato
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Received on Thu Aug 27 16:15:02 2009