Xvidcore, fbpanel - had a try on ABS: made some packages

Question

Since I'm getting really comfortable about this distro, I decided to try the ABS way of compiling. To my surprise this was  quite an easy thing to do. After a few tries I managed to create some packages, which I miss or aren't up-to-date in the arch linux database.
I made packages for
- xvid-1.0.1 (MPEG4 codec with better compression than divx)
- fbpanel (windows-like lightweight panel)
- libdts (decode dts-streams from dvd)
- leafpad (gtk notepad clone, lean and mean)
- guiTAR (gtk gui archive program)
Only fbpanel was a bit tricky: had to edit the Makefiles myself, for neither prefix and DESTDIR worked. Anyway I thought that maybe someone finds those usefull. <edit> This is fixed now see further down the page</edit>
The builds can be found here http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/btwoudstra
The PKGBUILDS are here:
XVID
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.7 2004/04/17 11:36:47 tobias Exp $
# Contributor: Sarah Hay <[email protected]>
# Maintainer: roberto <[email protected]>
# I just edited this PKGBUILD a little to get the latest xvid version, I hope Roberto doesn't mind.
pkgname=xvidcore
pkgver=1.0.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="XviD is an open source MPEG-4 video codec"
url="http://www.xvid.org/"
depends=('glibc')
source=(http://files.xvid.org/downloads/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('ef8993d620e403e992cc660dbe6e3581')
build() {
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/lib $startdir/pkg/usr/include/
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/build/generic
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
FBPANEL
#Contributor:frodoontop <[email protected]>
pkgname=fbpanel
pkgver=3.8
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="fbpanel is a lightweight X11 desktop panel"
url="http://fbpanel.sourceforge.net/"
license="GPL"
depends=('gtk2' 'xfree86')
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
source=(http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fbpanel/$pkgname-$pkgver.tgz)
md5sums=(95e43a2c201feb5e272bbd9a4f78ad6e)
build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
#note: this will not work, have to edit all the Makefiles by hand.  (change all install prefix paths)
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/ install
LIBDTS
#Contributor: frodoontop <[email protected]>
pkgname=libdts
pkgver=0.0.2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="libdts is a free library for decoding DTS Coherent Acoustics streams"
url="http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html"
license="GPL"
depends=()
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
source=(http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/libdts/0.0.2/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=(a1c0dac95d7031498c2d19d7a3107469)
build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
LEAFPAD
#Contributor: frodoontop <[email protected]>
pkgname=leafpad
pkgver=0.6.8
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Leafpad is a simple GTK+ based text editor"
url="http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/"
license="GPL"
depends=(gtk2)
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
source=(http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=(f3abf9ca505f16d1f1b7c2d6ff43f7e7)
build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg/usr install
Tell me if anybody finds it usefull

Answer 1

frodoontop wrote:
There is a package called xvidcore, have you tried that?
Yes, but it's still using a release candidate. While this one is stable version 1.0.1 already.
Also, what changes did you need to do to the makefile? Could you either include them in the PKGBUILD or perhaps an install file?
As I said in the original post. Change the lines from all three Makefiles at the sections install to the prefix you'd like to use. In my case this was something like /var/abs/local/fbpanel/pkg/usr .
I'm quite new to all this, but I'll look into this install file thing.
<edit>I have looked at the .install possibilities, but as far as I can see, there isn't a way to modify the source before compiling. Only after compiling. Correct me if I'm wrong.</edit>
You could use some sed scripting, I had to do that for a program I was trying to get to compile, check out the PKGBUILD at: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … highlight=
All I was doing is inserting a "0;" after a certain line in one of the source files.