[Haifux] Ideas for meetings

[Hai Zaar]

Schedule for Jul 28?

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Hai Zaar <haizaar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
>> On Monday 14 July 2008, Hai Zaar wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Leon Romanovsky <leon at leon.nu> wrote:
>>> > It will be great if anyone can talk about Scons too.
>>>
>>> I can give a very throughout lecture about Autoconf/Automake and
>>> friends. Is anyone interested?
>>>
>>
>> You may wish to consult the material and links at:
>>
>> http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Autotools/
> Thanks.
>
>>
>> One problem with the presentation is that I didn't really show how to do stuff
>> portably using Autoconf. That and I now decided that Autoconf tends to break
>> too often from my taste, and is one gigantic hackish kludge, and decided to
>> convert wholesale to CMake.
> It will be glad if you give a lecture on CMake at Haifux.
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>        Shlomi Fish
>>
>>> >> I'd like to see a meeting about building packages with tools like
>>> >> cmake. I know that the basic steps include
>>> >> wget something
>>> >> tar something
>>> >> cd somewhere
>>> >> cmake // i have no idea what this does
>>> >> make // what does this do?
>>> >> sudo make install // what really goes on here?
>>> >>
>>> >> It would be nice to analize the file system before and after each
>>> >> step, like this:
>>> >>
>>> >> wget something // Downloaded file. There is now a new file on the
>>> >> filesystem in the current directory
>>> >> tar something // Uncompresses archive. There is now a new directory,
>>> >> as a child of the current directory. It is full of files.
>>> >> cd somewhere // Move to new directory
>>> >> cmake // What is written in this step? Where? If I have to do it
>>> >> again, what must be erased first?
>>> >> make // What does this do? What does it write?
>>> >> sudo make install // Same questions as above.
>>> >>
>>> >> I could bring a laptop with a fresh Kubuntu install in a 10 GB
>>> >> partition for testing. The laptop has VGA out and wifi.
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Dotan Cohen
>>> >>
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>>
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>> Shlomi Fish       http://www.shlomifish.org/
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>>
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>>
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> --
> Zaar
>



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Zaar