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diff --git a/dev/packaging/tutorials/basic.mdwn b/dev/packaging/tutorials/basic.mdwn index 395fb58..c98306b 100644 --- a/dev/packaging/tutorials/basic.mdwn +++ b/dev/packaging/tutorials/basic.mdwn @@ -437,6 +437,61 @@ You can verify that all files were installed where they should be: tmp/xmlwf-doc.data/usr/share/man/man1/ tmp/xmlwf-doc.data/usr/share/man/man1/xmlwf.1 +Cleaning Up Installed Files +--------------------------- + +There are few things we can do to improve our `build` makefile's `install` +target. + +You may have noticed **oh-installfiles**(1) warn that something hasn't been +installed: + +> oh-installfiles: Warning: Some files have not been installed into packages + +With **find**(1), we can see that this is the `libexpat.la` file that GNU +libtool generated. + + $ find tmp/dest -type f -exec ls -Fd '{}' ';' | sed 's|^tmp/dest||' + /usr/lib/core-linux-eglibc/libexpat.la* + +We don't need this, and we can simply delete it in the `install` target. + +Next, note that some file permissions aren't entirely correct. For example, +`libexpat.so.1.6.0` is executable, but almost all libraries need not be. + +So we can call **oh-fixperms**(1) in our `install` target to automatically set +correct permissions for us. + +Finally, note that the executable and linkable objects are not stripped: they +contain all of their symbols, including those only needed for debugging. + + $ file tmp/libexpat.1.data/usr/lib/core-linux-eglibc/libexpat.so.1.6.0 + tmp/libexpat.1.data/usr/lib/core-linux-eglibc/libexpat.so.1.6.0: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=0x2d88e36feeb8245bfa2f63f2f0e9a9f8232f6d2c, not stripped + $ file tmp/xmlwf.data/usr/bin/xmlwf + tmp/xmlwf.data/usr/bin/xmlwf: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.26, BuildID[sha1]=0xdb5f686930b13b8a5e7519efb446a2da14de9856, not stripped + +We can call **oh-strip**(1) in our `install` target to automatically strip +objects for us. + +So our `build` makefile should now look like this: + + #!/usr/bin/make -f + + nop: + @: + + build: + oh-autoconfigure + oh-autobuild + touch $@ + + install: build + oh-autoinstall + rm -f 'dest/usr/lib/$(OPK_HOST_ARCH)/libexpat.la' + oh-fixperms + oh-strip + oh-installfiles + TODO: Finish. |