Re: [PATCH] waf.bbclass: explicitly pass libdir

[Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 09:32 -0600, Joshua Watt wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 14:58 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On 11 December 2017 at 14:16, Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> wrote:
> > > Hm, isn't this a "base" option which is always supported?
> > 
> > No idea. :)
> >  
> > > There are a bunch of others. But most seem to derive from PREFIX,
> > > which
> > > 
> > > we set...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   Installation prefix:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     By default, "waf install" will put the files in
> > > "/usr/local/bin",
> > > 
> > > "/usr/local/lib" etc. An installation prefix other than
> > > 
> > >     "/usr/local" can be given using "--prefix", for example
> > > 
> > > "--prefix=$HOME"
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     --prefix=PREFIX     installation prefix [default:
> > > '/usr/local/']
> > > 
> > >     --destdir=DESTDIR   installation root [default: '']
> > > 
> > >     --exec-prefix=EXEC_PREFIX
> > > 
> > >                         installation prefix for binaries [PREFIX]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   Installation directories:
> > > 
> > >     --bindir=BINDIR     user commands [EXEC_PREFIX/bin]
> > > 
> > >     --sbindir=SBINDIR   system binaries [EXEC_PREFIX/sbin]
> > > 
> > >     --libexecdir=LIBEXECDIR
> > > 
> > >                         program-specific binaries
> > > [EXEC_PREFIX/libexec]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     --sysconfdir=SYSCONFDIR
> > > 
> > >                         host-specific configuration [PREFIX/etc]
> > > 
> > >     --sharedstatedir=SHAREDSTATEDIR
> > > 
> > >                         architecture-independent variable data
> > > 
> > > [PREFIX/com]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     --localstatedir=LOCALSTATEDIR
> > > 
> > >                         variable data [PREFIX/var]
> > > 
> > >     --libdir=LIBDIR     object code libraries [EXEC_PREFIX/lib64]
> > > 
> > >     --includedir=INCLUDEDIR
> > > 
> > >                         header files [PREFIX/include]
> > > 
> > >     --oldincludedir=OLDINCLUDEDIR
> > > 
> > >                         header files for non-GCC compilers
> > > 
> > > [/usr/include]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     --datarootdir=DATAROOTDIR
> > > 
> > >                         architecture-independent data root
> > > 
> > > [PREFIX/share]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     --datadir=DATADIR   architecture-independent data
> > > [DATAROOTDIR]
> > > 
> > >     --infodir=INFODIR   GNU "info" documentation
> > > [DATAROOTDIR/info]
> > > 
> > >     --localedir=LOCALEDIR
> > > 
> > >                         locale-dependent data
> > > [DATAROOTDIR/locale]
> > > 
> > >     --mandir=MANDIR     manual pages [DATAROOTDIR/man]
> > > 
> > >     --docdir=DOCDIR     documentation root
> > > [DATAROOTDIR/doc/PACKAGE]
> > > 
> > >     --htmldir=HTMLDIR   HTML documentation [DOCDIR]
> > > 
> > >     --dvidir=DVIDIR     DVI documentation [DOCDIR]
> > > 
> > >     --pdfdir=PDFDIR     PDF documentation [DOCDIR]
> > > 
> > >     --psdir=PSDIR       PostScript documentation [DOCDIR]
> > 
> > But we do allow distros to override those, so passing the on
> 
> Vanilla waf only supports --prefix, --libdir, and --bindir. Anything
> else is a result of loading the gnu_dirs tool, which not all projects
> are required to do.

Sorry, hit send too soo: waf (at least version 2.0) also errors out on
unknown options. I think the three I listed are the only ones we can do
generically. There might be some way to easily adding the rest if you
know waf is loading gnu_dirs
> > es that we can is good.  bitbake.conf has the canonical list of
> > prefix variables that we expose.
> > 
> > Ross 
> > 

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