[LAD] Auto-wah plugin

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On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:55:36 +0200
Renato <rennabh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:42:12 +0200
> Fons Adriaensen <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:09:27PM +0200, Renato wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello, I've packaged this plugin for Archlinux, it's now in the
> > > AUR 
> > 
> > Thanks ! It's a bit unfortunate you acted so quickly - the plugin
> > is still in a 'beta' stage and following releases could well be 
> > incompatible. This is no big deal for people who install from
> > source, but could generate some trouble for the others.
> > 
> > > btw it would be good if in 'make install' the necessary files are
> > > copied to $(DESTDIR)/pathtowherecopyfiles rather than
> > > simply /pathtowherecopyfiles ; this surely makes packaging much
> > > easier on Arch
> > 
> > How should this be split up ? AFAIK there's only one place to
> > install LADPSA plugins, and the usual /usr or /usr/local 
> > separation is not used. But I could be wrong about this.
> > 
> 
> Well, I don't know about LADSPA plugins, but the fact is that in Arch
> for building from source in a pacman-aware (pacman is Arch's package
> manager) manner, you need the DESTDIR option... infact you first
> install all the files with the exact same direcotry tree as would
> do 'make install' but, instead of in root, in a working directory...
> i.e. you do
> 'make DESTDIR=/pathtotmpdir install'
> Then you point pacman to /pathtotmpdir, so he knows what to install
> and where on the system and keeps neatly track of it (you can then
> easily remove the package).
> 
> So for Archers the DESTDIR is important, but on the other hand it's
> easy to patch a Makefile if it doesn't have the DESTDIR option, so no
> real big problem for now... just a heads up for the future.
> 
> > > and also btw, good plugin - I've used it with good results with
> > > the settings suggested by Gabriel :)
> > 
> > Fine !
> > 
> > Ciao,
> > 
> 
> 
> ciao,
> Renato

Hi Fons.
On Arch we use scripts to easily build packages from source and install
those. The files get installed into a fakeroot environment, then it
gets packaged. The DESTDIR variable points to the fakeroot.
I patched a number of your applications makefiles to include DESTDIR
but it would of course be more convenient if we wouldn't have to do so.
I guess other package management systems use fakeroot as well and would
also benefit.

Regards,
Philipp