chocpkg/pkgdef/README.md
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The only place this is needed is when determining the directory name
that the tar file will be extracted to. This can be done by examining
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Package files are shell scripts which set variables and call well-defined
functions to describe how to build the package.
## Modules
`chocpkg` is divided into modules which provide specific functionality.
Modules are installed by calling certain dedicated functions.
Usually, your package should install a check module, a fetch module
and a build module.
### Check modules
Check modules are modules which determine whether the package is
installed on the system (may have been installed by `chocpkg` itself
or the system package manager).
If a check module is not installed, the default is to always
assume the package is not installed:
* `check_pkgconfig`: invokes `pkg-config` to determine if the package
is installed. The name of the `pkg-config` .pc file must be provided
as an argument to `check_pkgconfig`; for example:
```shell
check_pkgconfig SDL2
```
* `check_tool`: checks if a particular tool is installed in `$PATH`
to determine if the package is installed. The name of the tool must
be provided as an argument to `check_tool`; for example:
```shell
check_tool gnome-terminal
```
### Fetch modules
Fetch modules specify how to retrieve the package from the Internet:
* `fetch_download`: downloads the package from a URL specified as
an argument.
The file to
be downloaded is assumed to be a well-formed tar.gz file with all its
contents in a directory that matches the package name; if this is not
the case, the variable `$IS_TAR_BOMB` should be set to `true`.
Example use:
```shell
fetch_download http://example.com/example-pkg.tar.gz
IS_TAR_BOMB=true
```
* `fetch_git`: downloads the package from a Git repository at the URL
given as an argument.
The branch `master`
will be checked out by default; this can be overriden by providing
the branch name as a second argument to `fetch_git`.
Example use:
```shell
fetch_git http://example.com/example.git my-neato-branch
```
### Build modules
Build modules specify how to build the package after it is fetched:
* `build_autotools`: builds the package assuming that it is laid out
as a standard autotools package (ie. `./configure; make; make install`).
Extra arguments passed to the function will be passed through to
`configure`.
Example use:
```shell
build_autotools --disable-broken-feature
```
### Other modules and functions
* `dependencies`: Arguments provided to the function are the names
of other packages to install before trying to build this one.
Example use:
```shell
dependencies other-package neato-lib
```
* `package_group`: Specifies that this is not really a package that
should be built; rather, it just specifies a number of other packages
to build.
Example use:
```shell
# File contains no other lines
package_group neato-lib dumbo-lib
```
## Variables
* `PACKAGE_TYPE`: has a value of either `native` or `target`. The
default is `target`. The variable controls whether the package is
built for the target system when doing cross-compiles, or whether it
is part of the build (native) system and just used to build tools as
part of the build process. The package type determines whether the
result is installed into `install` or `install.native`.
## Advanced builds
Complicated packages can require custom build steps. The following functions
can therefore be overridden in the package file in exceptional circumstances.
These are essentially the functions implemented by the modules described
above.
* `do_fetch`: the function which is invoked to fetch the package from the
Internet. The fetched package is placed into `$PACKAGE_BUILD_DIR` for
build.
* `prebuild_setup`: define a function with this name to execute special
setup commands in the root of a package just before it is built.
* `do_build`: the function which is invoked to build the package.
* `do_install`: the function which is invoked to install the package after
it has been built. This function should install built files from
`$PACKAGE_BUILD_DIR` into `$PACKAGE_INSTALL_DIR`.