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[Tman]

Hello,

When I first started compiling apps, I felt a sense of great satisfaction of being able to be able make pets from source files. But after some time, I realized that, with so many sources out there, it would be much, much more efficient to have some sort of automated build scripts do it all for you. Once you have created a build-script, then it should do everything for you, from downloading the source, configuring it, and converting into a pet.

So I started creating my own build-scripts which did the job, but then I discovered Iguleder's buildpkg system, which allowed for much smaller build-scripts, and also created smaller pets than my own system.

When I first tried it out, I was amazed, and delighted! Iguleder had done some fantastic work on this, and I could tell that he spent a lot of time creating the scripts. So the bulk of this project was already completed, thanks to Iguleder.

I took the buildpkg script and have adapted it so that it will create a suffix at the end of the pets. Also I have added a few bug fixes and some extra features. Newer scripts will have extra info sent to the /tmp/buildpet_info folder.

I also plan to add a grahical interface to this system, later on. After all this is complete, then I will periodically create and add build scripts to the repository.

I hope to end up with a large collection of build scripts so that eventually, a novice user will be able to load up any version of Puppy and be able to create pets from source files with a few clicks of the mouse .

Currently however, there is no GUI in place but using it from the terminal is not so difficult:

1) First you will need to install buildpet
2) load the devx sfs file. For drivers, the kernel-sources sfs must also be loaded
3) Open up a terminal emulator or exit to the console.
Example to build leafpad:

[pemasu]

Works. Thanks !

[oldyeller]

Hello Tman,
when I try and do tint2 or wbar I get permission denied.

Is there something else I need to do?


EDIT I saw what I did not do

I should have looked closer at the example you gave above.

This works really nice Thank you so much for this

Cheers

[sc0ttman]

I have been making updates to buildpet, including

- auto tar up the source dir of svn/git downloads, then remove the source dir when not needed
- allow to change package versions in the build script (can now download 'pkg-latest.tar.gz', which might unpack the dir 'pkg-0.x.x' - now it will still work fine, with the right stuff in the build script [see jwm build script])
-added ability to auto-integrate with Pkg (my cli pkg manager) if its installed
- updated info in pop up message when installed
- more verbose error reporting
- added build scripts for: jwm (always builds latest version), easytag, audacious, xcb_proto, xcb_util, pekwm, freeciv , others ...
- fixed some buildscripts (xpad, others), needed `wget --no-check-certificate`

to see all build scripts available to compile, type the following in the terminal: