TITLE

tools/dev/install_files.pl - Copy files to their correct locations

SYNOPSIS

    % perl tools/dev/install_files.pl [options]

DESCRIPTION

Use a detailed MANIFEST to install a set of files.

Options

buildprefix

The build prefix. Defaults to ''.

prefix

The install prefix. Defaults to '/usr'.

exec_prefix

The exec prefix. Defaults to '/usr'.

bindir

The executables directory. Defaults to '/usr/bin'.

libdir

The library directory. Defaults to '/usr/lib'.

includedir

The header directory. Defaults to '/usr/include'.

MANIFEST Format

The format of the MANIFEST (currently MANIFEST and MANIFEST.generated are used) is:

    source_path <whitespace> [package]meta1,meta2,...

or you may optionally specify a different destination path:

    source_path <whitespace> [package]meta1,meta2,... <whitespace> destination

Additionally, there may be a * in front of the whole line to designate a generated file:

    source_path <whitespace> *[package]meta1,meta2,... <whitespace> destination

The square brackets around package are literal. package gives the name of the RPM that the given file will be installed for, and is only used by this script to skip files that are not members of any package.

The various meta flags recognized are:

doc

Tag this file with %doc in the RPM, and omit the leading path (because rpm will put it into a directory of its choosing)

include

Write this file to the location given by the --includedir option

lib

Write this file to the location given by the --libdir option

bin

Write this file to the location given by the --bindir option

The optional destination field provides a general way to change where a file will be written to. It will be applied before any metadata tags.

Example: if this line is in the MANIFEST.generated file

  languages/snorkfest/snork-compile        [main]bin

and the --bindir=/usr/parroty/bin, then the generated parrot-<VERSION>-1.<arch>.rpm file will contain the file /usr/parroty/bin/snork-compile.

SEE ALSO

tools/dev/mk_manifests.pl