[darcs-users] Re: Config patch

[Peter Simons]

Sean E Russell writes:

 > I'm submitting a patch for the darcs 'configure' file in 0.9.10.

I have seen it, thanks! I'll take a look at your changes ASAP. (David,
I'll upload the patch with darcs to you then.)


 > In particular, on Gentoo, darcs can be installed in /opt.

Actually, I have a Gentoo ebuild for darcs sitting on my hard disk,
which works fine with the latest version. :-)

I'll submit it to gentoo.org by tomorrow, so it should show up in the
portage tree soon. My ebuild installs darcs to /usr, though, the usual
way. IMHO the Gentoo policy is that /opt is for binary packages only,
and darcs is compiled from the source.


 > Firstly, what would the reception be if I modified the build to
 > bypass generation of the documentation if LaTeX is not installed?

This should be the case in the latest version already. If you don't
have TeX, the manual isn't built. I haven't looked at the release
archive, but I assume a built version of the manual in HTML and
Postscript is there anyway? David?


 > 	configure --prefix=/opt/darcs/0.9.10
 > 	make
 > 	make install -d /var/tmp/portage/build/darcs/0.9.10

I guess you meant "make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/... install", right?
This works fine with the current build system; DESTDIR is fully
supported.

Peter