My first from-scratch pkgbuild - [solved]

Question

Hi Archers!
Yesterday, I set off on writing my own PKGBUILD from scratch for a package I have adopted - monkey. (http daemon)  I had used it previously on Damn Small Linux, and it was one of the programs that spurred my initial interest in Linux.  Enough history...
So, I copied over the PKGBUILD.proto into my working directory, and set to work.   I filled in the fields per the wiki's packaging guidelines,  and stared down the build() function.  As much as I know, what happens in here was (and kind of is) still a mystery to me.  From my reading, it appears that the build() calls fakeroot and runs the ./configure && make && make install while inside a fakeroot, of course allowing me to record changes made to a fake root filesystem, tar them up, and make a package out of it.  Now that I've toyed with it for a while, I see thats not the case.  (or maybe it is?)  I'm noticing that if I place the ./configure --(opts here) && make && make install inside the build() function, I run into permission errors as the make install tries to install the files on the real root filesystem.  hmm.
So I go back and check a few other similar PKGBUILDS.  I notice that they use either the prefix= env var or INSTALLDIR= env var to control where to drop the files.  So, I tried both (make prefix=$pkgdir install, or make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install ) but nether of those changed anything, and after closer inspection of the Makefile, it appears that neither of those vars are referenced.  Poo.
So, I changed the ./configure line to read: ./configure --prefix=$pkgdir/usr --confdir=$pkgdir/etc/$pkgname etc etc... for all the configure opts.  That seems to at least drop the files in the right place (the pkg/ dir under the folder that the PKGBUILD is in)
But... there are some changes I would need to make to the Makefile, first of which is that the Makefile actually starts the daemon as part of make install.  I tried to write a little sed one liner, but it doesn't seem to work, and I'm getting a little confused at this point.  (check the attached PKGBUILD)  Also, I tried using diff -u and making a patch which also cut out the last few lines of the make install (@echo  *** instructions here) which would be better placed in an .install file, but I can work on that later.
Anyway, I would appreciate any help getting this to work the right way (i.e. not having a bunch of install commands in the build() func), but I may end up going that way anyway.  Tell me where I'm going wrong.
Thanks,
Gary.
You can check out the very broken sourceball here
My PKGBUILD:
#Maintainer : Gary Wright <wriggary at g mail.com>
pkgname=monkey
pkgver=0.10.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Monkey HTTP Daemon, is a very small and fast open source web server for Linux"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.monkey-project.com/"
license=('GPL2')
groups=()
depends=('gcc-libs')
makedepends=()
optdepends=('php: currently not working, but planned for 0.11.0')
provides=("monkey=$pkgver")
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
options=()
install=
source=("http://www.monkey-project.com/releases/0.10/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
"monkey")
noextract=()
md5sums=('d96d79d0768812a179c9fcf95317bda8'
'c6dce4218ef222e60489a4289d8da347')
build() {
cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=$pkgdir/usr --bindir=$pkgdir/usr/bin --sysconfdir=$pkgdir/etc/$pkgname --datadir=$pkgdir/srv/http/htdocs --logdir=$pkgdir/var/log/$pkgname --plugdir=$pkgdir/usr/share/$pkgname --cgibin=$pkgdir/srv/http/htdocs/cgi-bin
make || return 1
sed -n 's/\$(BINDIR)\/monkey/#\${BINDIR}\/monkey/' Makefile
make install || return 1
# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
The (stupid) Makefile that gets generated with this ./configure line:
# Monkey HTTP Daemon: Makefile
# ============================
PREFIX=/home/gary/aur/monkey-010/pkg/usr
BINDIR=/home/gary/aur/monkey-010/pkg/usr/bin
CGIBIN=/home/gary/aur/monkey-010/pkg/srv/http/htdocs/cgi-bin
SYSCONFDIR=/home/gary/aur/monkey-010/pkg/etc/monkey
DATADIR=/home/gary/aur/monkey-010/pkg/srv/http/htdocs
LOGDIR=/home/gary/aur/monkey-010/pkg/var/log/monkey
PLUGINDIR=/home/gary/aur/monkey-010/pkg/usr/share/monkey
default:
@(cd src; make all)
clean:
@(cd src; make clean)
distclean:
@(cd src; make distclean)
install:
make -C src all
install -d $(BINDIR)
install -d $(CGIBIN)
install -d $(SYSCONFDIR)
install -d ${SYSCONFDIR}/sites
install -d ${SYSCONFDIR}/plugins
install -d $(DATADIR)
install -d ${DATADIR}/imgs
install -d ${DATADIR}/php
install -d ${DATADIR}/docs
install -d ${LOGDIR}
install -d ${PLUGINDIR}
install -m 755 bin/monkey $(BINDIR)
$(BINDIR)/monkey
install -m 755 bin/banana $(BINDIR)
install -m 644 ./conf/*.* $(SYSCONFDIR)
cp -r conf/plugins/security ${SYSCONFDIR}/plugins/
install -m 644 ./conf/sites/* ${SYSCONFDIR}/sites
install -s -m 644 plugins/cheetah/*.so ${PLUGINDIR}
install -s -m 644 plugins/security/*.so ${PLUGINDIR}
install -m 644 ./htdocs/*.* $(DATADIR)
install -m 644 ./htdocs/imgs/*.* ${DATADIR}/imgs
Last edited by wriggary (2010-04-09 15:13:08)

Answer 1

Andrwe - he already posted the Makefile - it doesn't use DESTDIR, prefix, of any other variable that could specify an alternative package root.
wrigarry - here's my version. It installs everything under $pkgdir, doesn't try to run the daemon, and doesn't echo any message - that's as far as I'm going. You can do the rest.
pkgname=monkey
pkgver=0.10.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Monkey HTTP Daemon, is a very small and fast open source web server
for Linux"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.monkey-project.com/"
license=('GPL2')
depends=('gcc-libs')
#optdepends=('php: currently not working, but planned for 0.11.0')
provides=("monkey=$pkgver")
source=("http://www.monkey-project.com/releases/0.10/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
Makefile.patch)
build() {
cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sysconfdir=/etc/$pkgname \
--datadir=/srv/http/htdocs --logdir=/var/log/$pkgname \
--plugdir=/usr/share/$pkgname --cgibin=/srv/http/htdocs/cgi-bin || return 1
patch -Np0 -i ../Makefile.patch || return 1
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install || return 1
md5sums=('d96d79d0768812a179c9fcf95317bda8'
'cf61afddb4c53bea688bc225678e3001')
Makefile.patch
--- Makefile 2010-04-09 10:30:26.781831483 +0100
+++ Makefile.new 2010-04-09 10:28:08.591830541 +0100
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
# Monkey HTTP Daemon: Makefile
# ============================
-PREFIX=/usr
-BINDIR=/usr/bin
-CGIBIN=/srv/http/htdocs/cgi-bin
-SYSCONFDIR=/etc/monkey
-DATADIR=/srv/http/htdocs
-LOGDIR=/var/log/monkey
-PLUGINDIR=/usr/share/monkey
+PREFIX=$(DESTDIR)/usr
+BINDIR=$(DESTDIR)/usr/bin
+CGIBIN=$(DESTDIR)/srv/http/htdocs/cgi-bin
+SYSCONFDIR=$(DESTDIR)/etc/monkey
+DATADIR=$(DESTDIR)/srv/http/htdocs
+LOGDIR=$(DESTDIR)/var/log/monkey
+PLUGINDIR=$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/monkey
default:
@(cd src; make all)
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
install -d ${LOGDIR}
install -d ${PLUGINDIR}
install -m 755 bin/monkey $(BINDIR)
- $(BINDIR)/monkey
install -m 755 bin/banana $(BINDIR)
install -m 644 ./conf/*.* $(SYSCONFDIR)
cp -r conf/plugins/security ${SYSCONFDIR}/plugins/
@@ -38,12 +37,4 @@
install -s -m 644 plugins/security/*.so ${PLUGINDIR}
install -m 644 ./htdocs/*.* $(DATADIR)
install -m 644 ./htdocs/imgs/*.* ${DATADIR}/imgs
- @echo
- @echo " Running Monkey :"
- @echo " ----------------"
- @echo
- @echo " # /usr/bin/monkey"
- @echo
- @echo " For more help use '-h' option"
- @echo
Also, you didn't post the code for the "monkey" in your SOURCE array - I presume it's the rc script - so I left it out.