[Xastir-Dev] 1.2.0 patches for datadir, pkglib, xastir.spec.in

[Alan Crosswell]

As they used to call it back in the good old mainframe days, I created a 
PTF-in-error:-)  Attached find a replacement patch for the 
xastir-datadir.patch.  It sticks XASTIR_DATA_BASE in CPPFLAGS instead of 
in config.h, which makes the Makefile GNU compliant by permitting 
$prefix (which $datadir is based on) to be redefined at make time (as 
well as at configure time).  config.h considered harmful:-)

http://www.columbia.edu/~alan/xastir/RPMS/i386/xastir-1.2.0-2.i386.rpm 
and http://www.columbia.edu/~alan/xastir/SRPMS/xastir-1.2.0-2.src.rpm 
contain the new patch.

73
/a


Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Alan Crosswell wrote:
> 
> 
>>I know you won't like this answer, but when using RPM's and upgrading an RPM,
>>this just works since RPM has the complete list of old files to delete, new
>>files to add, and config files to keep.
> 
> 
> So what happens to the files that a user has added to the
> GNIS/Counties/config/fcc/maps/sounds directories?  I assume these
> are not deleted, but the user still has to move them into the new
> heirarchy.
> 
> 
> 
>>Now for the rest of the world, I think a script just to clean up would do the
>>trick (invoked by the make install rule).  Let me know if you want me to cobble
>>this together.
> 
> 
> So far I've needed to do this:
> 
> 
>     Close Xastir sessions
>     mv /usr/local/xastir /usr/local/share
>     Edit ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf:  Change "/usr/local/xastir" to
>         "/usr/local/share/xastir".
> 
> 
> Now it's complaining because it can't find the xastir.rgb file:
> 
> 
> Error! can not find color file: ${prefix}/share/xastir/config/xastir.rgb
> Error in Color file! Exiting...
> 
> 
> It looks like a substitution problem in
> xa_config.c:get_database_dir()?
> 
> 
> 
>>PS: I really don't get the point of those placeholder files.
> 
> 
> They were a quick hack to force empty directories to be created by
> "make install".  If you know a better way, please pass it along.  I
> didn't like it when I coded it either, but I couldn't figure out a
> better method at the time.  I suspect autoconf/automake has a way to
> do it, but I couldn't find it.
> 
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