Changes between Version 8 and Version 9 of PortingTips

Timestamp:

08/19/08 16:21:36 (7 years ago)

Author:

scottmc

Comment:

added the Building binary section

PortingTips

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 Also note that doing so may, depending on the project, result in more dependencies but might be easier to handle, for instance when modifying {{{configure.in}}} or {{{Makefile.am}}} instead of an Autoconf-generated {{{configure}}} or Automake-generated {{{Makefile}}}.
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+== Building to a clean folder and making a binary ==
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+Many packages have an option to do a "make install", in many of those cases you can use:[[BR]]
+ * make install DESTDIR=/boot/foo
+ * cd /boot/foo/boot
+ * zip -ry9 foo-x.x.x-haiku-#.zip *
+Where x.x.x is the rev of the package, and # is the portlog revision, which will usually be 1.