[arch-general] What to do about the "blender" package?

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 20.07.2009 03:46, Alessandro Doro wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:28:51PM +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
>   
>> On 19.07.2009 12:42, Alessandro Doro wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:29:20PM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> 2009/7/19 Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com>:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> IMO the problem is that you (devs) use make to build blender which is
>>>>> several years deprecated and probably no-one builds blender this way.
>>>>> Maybe they've dropped support for it completely. I suggest using
>>>>> SCons. Maybe you can reuse my blender-svn PKGBUILD from AUR, only
>>>>> thing that has to be changed for this purpose is the part where data
>>>>> is downloaded from SVN server.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is one problem which I'm aware of with this package – it
>>>>> installs blender executable in /usr/share/blender and adds wrapper to
>>>>> /usr/bin. I'll probably move blender to /opt in near future.
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> There is also a request about building to SCons:
>>>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14893
>>>> and there is a PKGBUILD too (for stable, not svn version).
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> That PKGBUILD needs a cleanup; depends and makedepends are wrong.
>>> I'll soon post an updated version.
>>>
>>> FYI I had success with the NaN method.
>>> The "key" is (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14766#comment46628):
>>> export NAN_DEBUG=-O
>>> Today I'll work for a PKGBUILD.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I fixed both packages and uploaded them. Take whichever you want.
>> http://doubleskill.de/svens_stuff/blender-pkgs.tar.gz
>>     
>
> So you're providing a (scons) PKGBUILD for x86_64 with '-march=i686' and
> '-mtune=generic' compile flags?
>
> Note that all you need (no sedding) for the NaN method is, not reviewed:
> export NAN_NO_PLUGIN=true
> export NAN_PYTHON_VERSION=2.6
> export INTERNATIONAL=true
> export WITH_BF_OPENMP=true
> export NAN_USE_FFMPEG_CONFIG=true
> export NAN_ODE=/usr
> export WITH_VERSE=true
> export NAN_DEBUG=-O
> and a patch (assuming we DO want sound):
> - NAN_SND_LIBS += $(NAN_OPENAL)/lib/libopenal.a
> + NAN_SND_LIBS += -lopenal
> in source/Makefile
>
>
>   
Whoops, sorry. Didn't see that as I hoped that scons would do some magic
for me. Oh well, mind adding a little sed magic into the PKGBUILD to
make up for it?
Apart from that, building using scons seems to work quite well AND IT
HAS COLORS.

Honestly though, I don't mind whatever PKGBUILD and build system you are
going to choose as long as I won't miss out on any features in Blender
:). Since the current Blender version in [extra] is a couple of months
old, it should be a priority to update that package as soon as possible.