cygport ... install starts in cwd but ... all does not

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-05-19 14:16, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 19.05.2020 20:56, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2020-05-19 11:43, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 18.05.2020 17:47, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>> On 2020-05-17 02:13, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>>> On 17.05.2020 08:45, Brian Inglis wrote:
> 
>>
>>> may be also the patches ?
>>
>> You mean switching to apply during prep?
>> You are probably right!
>> Thanks very much for that insight.
>> Will have to look into what that runs.
> 
> I was just saying I can not test the full process,
> so I focused on just the doicon ;-)
> 
>>> Anyway removing most of the cygport to fake the compilation
>>> and installation and putting just some pwd before and after the
>>> pushd/popd to see what is happening:
>>>
>>> $ cygport tek4010.cygport compile
>>>>>> Compiling tek4010-1.5-1.x86_64
>>> /pub/tmp
>>> /pub/tmp/tek4010-1.5-1.x86_64/build
>>> /pub/tmp
>>>
>>>
>>> $ cygport tek4010.cygport install
>>>>>> Installing tek4010-1.5-1.x86_64
>>> /pub/tmp
>>> *** ERROR: file Tek4010.png does not exist
>>
>> Thanks also for the suggestion of approach to take using pwd around everything.
> 
> I am used to have "cd ${S}" or "cd ${B}" as first step,
> so I had no clue if there was a default.
> Cygport code is not obvious, so adding "pwd" was the
> easy way to debug
> 
> 
>>> so you need a pushd ${S} before
>>>
>>>      doicon Tek4010.png
>>>      pushd ${B}
>>
>> SRC_DIR=Tek4010 as the sources are extracted in that directory instead of src.
>>
>> The local package files .cygport, .patch, .png are all under my main
>> ~/src/cygwin/tek4010/ directory where I invoke cygport, so it starts there, but
>> seems unable to get back there.
> 
> I use a common directory for both x86 and x86_64 platform
> and the test installation versions of both.
> 
> $ readlink -f /pub
> /cygdrive/d/cyg_pub
> 
> I assume unusual enough that "pwd" is useful a lot
> 
>> Should be able to get this done and maybe offer an ITP.
>>
>> Although this package appears designed to build in user home dir under Raspbian
>> (and Ubuntu, so also Debian), it does not seem to be packaged anywhere I can
>> find.
>>
>> I'll see if the author would be interested in a packaging PR to remove home dir
>> dependencies and support Cygwin packaging and its metas, and maybe I could also
>> add Debian/Raspbian/Ubuntu metas as they are somewhat similar and standard.

On the project Github issues, someone already built and is using on Cygwin, so I
will ask about packaging and some other requirements that came up there.

> The build system seems very basic and old style.
> Probably to be as light as possible as the target is a Raspberry Pi.

Lack of any (interest in?) packaging background, but not development, and not
that light, as this project just provides an X Window Tek emulator front end,
under Debian LXDE X client and server, possibly over ssh or VNC, for a SimH
PDP-11 (or PDP-8 for PiDP-8 emulated console) simulator running original Unix V7
or BSD 2.11 OS and graphics apps driving the Tek, inside a PiDP-11 providing a
hardware interface to miniature emulated console switches and blinkenlights as
well as a hardware serial port connected into the simulator:

	https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11

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