Re: [pacman-dev] Libraries for makepkg

Geoffroy Carrier wrote:

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I can think of one function which would save a lot of discussion around here: create_desktop_file(<progname>, <description>, <category>) Except I think you need at least to use an icon, and if possible to

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Allan McRae wrote: translate descriptions, that you might get locale issues (charset for the name/description, even for international apps like Prot\'eg\'e I happen to package), etc. Else, seems a good idea :o)

I'd like something that would replace/shorten that (taken from javacc):

for _exe in javacc jjdoc jjtree do cat << EOF > $_exe #!/bin/sh exec /usr/share/java/javacc/bin/$_exe \$@ EOF install -Dm755 $_exe "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$_exe" done

Let me show my stupidity here, but why would a script be: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/share/java/javacc/bin/$_exe \$@ To spawn a shell to start the program, whats wrong with a symlink to the program in its place? ln -s /usr/share/java/javacc/$_exe $pkgdir/usr/bin/$_exe