toolchain DESTDIR parameter

swordman · Post by **swordman** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:32 am

I'm trying to build a package for SLAX to enable it to compile for PSP.
Is there an option like DESTDIR to make the toolchain compile and put the file in a specific directory?
Thanks!

jimparis · Post by **jimparis** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:17 am

The toolchain is just gcc, binutils, gdb, newlib, etc, so whatever DESTDIR support they have should already be usable (you'll have to adjust the toolchain build scripts, of course).

The pspsdk is autoconf, so that should support it too.

Post by **ooPo** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:19 am

You can use the environment variable $PSPDEV to set the destination directory:

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 ## Configure the build.
 ../configure --prefix="$PSPDEV" --target="psp" --enable-install-libbfd || &#123; exit 1; &#125;

Is that what you need?

swordman · Post by **swordman** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:24 am

Thanks ooPo! that seems what I'm looking for. I'll give it a try!

jimparis · Post by **jimparis** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:28 am

No, DESTDIR is different. It's used when installing into a temporary different location -- used during package building. See http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/man ... STDIR.html

Setting PSPDEV to the staged install dir would result in binaries that don't work correctly in the final install.

swordman · Post by **swordman** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:11 am

No, I haven't tested the "set PSPDEV" method, but what should I do to make a installation suitable for packaging?
My normal procedure to make packages is the use of DESTDIR parameter, so? Any idea on how to adapt it to psptoolchian?
Thanks for all the advices :)

jimparis · Post by **jimparis** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:08 pm

As I said:

The toolchain is just gcc, binutils, gdb, newlib, etc, so whatever DESTDIR support they have should already be usable (you'll have to adjust the toolchain build scripts, of course).

The pspsdk is autoconf, so that should support it too.