[Pkg-scicomp-devel] paraview added to repo

[Ondrej Certik]

On Feb 3, 2008 1:07 AM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2008 11:32 PM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I added a paraview package into our svn repo. Check it out, get orig tarball:
> >
> > $ debian/rules orig-tarball
> >
> > but I have problems installing the package. Paraview is fine, it needs
> > to be patched
> > to compile on Debian, which is done in the package, so that's ok. But
> > dpkg-buildpackage
> > is executing the configure target twice, which makes the build fail.
> > When this is fixed,
> > all should be fine.
>
> I made more progress (committed). First, you can use
>
> dpkg-buildpackage -j2
>
> and it will work. Second, it now fails when installing things to
> debian/paraview. Also the "make install" installs things to
> /usr/local, so the
> cmake (at the configure time) needs to be told to install things to
> /usr/ instead.
>
> Then more polishing, like manpages, copyright etc. needs to be
> written. Also builddepends are not quite right yet - it definitely
> won't build in pbuilder.
> You need to install qt4.3-dev etc. I am going to leave this for a few
> days - if you'd like to look at it Christophe, that'd be cool.

OK, so I fixed the package, it builds now just fine. It's not lintian
clean, some QA work is needed, but
otherwise the package works very well for me on amd64. I added some
builddepends, but I didn't yet
test it in pbuilder.

Ondrej