Re: Trouble creating new package

[Jack Mitchell <ml@communistcode.co.uk>]

On 10/01/12 11:16, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:08:22AM +0000, Jack Mitchell wrote:
>> Good morning everyone,
>>
>> I am currently having issues creating a (very!) simple package. I have
>> looked at the latest reference manual and studied other .bb files to no
>> avail.
>>
>> I am trying to build a simple web server called Hiawatha. To install
>> (http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/howto/compilation_and_installation)
>> it consists of a simple:
>>
>> ./configure
>>
>> make
>>
>> make install
>>
>> Now, for the life in me I cannot replicate this behaviour in a .bb file.
>> This is what I have so far:
>>
>> DESCRIPTION = "Lightweight secure web server"
>> HOMEPAGE = "http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org"
>>
>> LICENSE = "GPLv2"
>> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a9b0a0eb7c54c87ec6ac05f5f603df6a"
>>
>> SECTION = "custom"
>>
>> PR = "r0"
>>
>> SRC_URI = "http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/files/hiawatha-7.8.2.tar.gz"
>>
>> SRC_URI[md5sum] = "8aff3f8c759871ea1d1ff22e98030332"
>>
>> do_configure () {
>>
>>     ./configure --disable-ipv6 \
>>                --disable-ssl \
>>                --disable-toolkit \
>>                --disable-xslt \
>>                --disable-largefile \
>>
>>     oe_runmake
>>
>> }
>>
>> do_install () {
>>
>>     oe_runmake install DESTDIR=${D} SBINDIR=${sbindir} MANDIR=${mandir} \
>>       INCLUDEDIR=${includedir}
>>
>> }
>>
>> Could someone point me in the right direction, I feel this should be an
>> extremely easy piece of software to build - I think I'm just not
>> understanding the build system correctly....
>>
>> The error I receive when trying to build this package is:
>>
>> ERROR: Function 'do_install' failed (see
>> /home/jack/yocto/poky-git/beagleInitial/tmp/work/armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi/hiawatha-7.8.2-r0/temp/log.do_install.6289
>> for further information)
>> | NOTE: make -j 9 -e MAKEFLAGS= -e install
>> DESTDIR=/home/jack/yocto/poky-git/beagleInitial/tmp/work/armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi/hiawatha-7.8.2-r0/image
>> SBINDIR=/usr/sbin MANDIR=/usr/share/man INCLUDEDIR=/usr/include
>> | make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
>> | ERROR: oe_runmake failed
> try to start with
> inherit autotools
>
> Cheers,,
>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Jack.
>>
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Hi Martin,

Inheriting autotools makes no difference, I also don't understand why 
autotools should be inherited if it is only a make/configure combination 
being used?

Best Regards