Hi,
On 02/28/2010 03:39 PM, Henrique Junior wrote:
Hi, gentlemen,
For some time the inclusion of the software Scilab [1] in our repos has
been barred by various dependencies, which were being resolved with
time. Currently, the biggest reason we do not have this software in our
repos is that it relies in a software called JOGL [2].
The big question here is that JOGL, in his turn, depends on other
software called Gluegen [3] and, more specifically, it depends on the
**source tree** of Gluegen, as explained in the instructions for build [4]:
"Step 5 - Check out the GlueGen source tree:
JOGL GlueGen relies on the project to autogenerate most of the Java and
JNI code for the OpenGL interface. The JOGL / and gluegen / workspaces
must be side-by-side in order for JOGL to build properly. "
At this stage, we have drafts of packages for both, Gluegen [5] and JOGL
[6], but we got to the stalemate that JOGL continues to need Gluegen’s
**code** to build his own build.xml, so, even if we have Gluegen
packaged and installed, what matters for the correct build of JOGL is
the gluegen’s code side by side.
At first I thought it would be better to generate both packages from a
single .spec, then I decided to create a separate package for Gluegen
and provide a tarball of that Gluegen’s code as Source1 for the
compilation of JOGL.
As Chen Lei said, the fact that JOGL needs this code may mean that it
will be blocked forever for packaging, but I do not particularly see a
big problem.
For more details, please, read the log in bugzilla and give your ideas
regarding this question.
AFAIK we have had problems like this before with various bits of Xorg
(iirc) needing the sources of other bits to build.
The "usual" solution for this, is to give a package a -source subpackage,
which contains the extracted sources (and installs them under
/usr/src
So I think the best way to handle this is to package gluegen, and include
gluegen's sources as a gluegen-source subpackage, and then make jogl
BuildRequire gluegen-source.
Regards,
Hans