[Rock-dev] [Autoproj] Defining a custom package type for boost

[Charles Lesire-Cabaniols]

2012/9/12 Charles Lesire-Cabaniols <charles.lesire at gmail.com>

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> 2012/9/12 Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux at dfki.de>
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>>      But then in my .autobuild file, I guessed that boost_package
>>> 'boost1.48' would have worked, but autoproj complains that boost_package
>>> does not exist.
>>> In source.yml, I have set the archive url for boost1.48.
>>>
>>>  OK ... You need to have a look in autoproj/autobuild.rb. That is where
>>> the package types are made available for autoproj users (in short: you need
>>> to define the boost_package method at the toplevel, not on the Autobuild
>>> module). This is a bit of a historical thing ...
>>>
>>
>> ok. but I don't find where the ':cmake' package type is defined... how
>> should I call package_common to point to the BoostPackage class I have
>> defined?
>>
>> This sucks ... Thanks for pointing it out.
>>
>> The chain is:
>>
>>   at toplevel: def cmake_package ... end
>>   calls: package_common(:cmake, ...)
>>   calls: Autoproj.define(:cmake, options)
>>   calls: Autobuild.cmake(options)
>>
>> So, you do need to define the method on Autobuild (the way you did) and
>> then define the boost_package at toplevel, which
>>
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> Could you give me an example with :boost instead of :cmake? Cause cmake is
> working, for sure, but when I call package_common(:boost, options), I have
> the following error:
> ample.autobuild(package_set=rose):43: undefined method `boost' for
> Autobuild:Module
>   in /home/lesire/work/robotis/autoproj/remotes/rose/init.rb:25:in
> `boost_package'
>   in /home/lesire/work/robotis/autoproj/remotes/rose/ample.autobuild:43
>
> And I don't know what to put instead...
>

Ok, I think I am on the good way... checking out boost worked, and now
autoproj is configuring it...
Looks like I could complete building boost by tonight ;)



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>> In the future, I will change this so that the code gets package classes
>> directly (while keeping backward compatibility), which makes a lot more
>> sense. Instead of defining your own package type (which is a one-time thing
>> ...) you will then be able to directly define the whole package in an
>> autobuild file:
>>
>>   package_common(Autobuild::Configurable, 'boost') do |pkg|
>>     def pkg.configure
>>        ...
>>     end
>>     def pkg.build
>>        ...
>>     end
>>   end
>>
>> Sylvain
>>
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