Open mcclure opened 6 months ago
There is no prefix variable in the justfile. The build vendored rule is the same as the build release rule, but with an offline flag.
There is no prefix variable in the justfile. The build vendored rule is the same as the build release rule, but with an offline flag.
Thank you for explaining. As a note, it looks like build vendored also invokes a _vendor-extract
rule, which is the one that was giving me my error.
Now that I understand better, it seems to me that the README has some issues that could be improved:
prefix=
in addition to rootdir=
when calling just install
. But reading the source rootdir=
appears to be used to establish install prefix for all installed files, and in my testing calling just prefix=/anything/here install
— as the README recommends for packagers— causes an error.rootdir
is specific to the vendor builds. ("Then you can specify a custom root directory and prefix.", but "then" could mean either "Afterward" or "Therefore".) It could be clearer that rootdir
is available for all build types but intended for the vendor build case. Related to this:~/.local
), the distribution install point (under /usr/lib/
), and a system administrator install point (under /etc
). I think you should clarify in this section that just install
without rootdir=
is installing into the user-install point and that just install
with rootdir=
is installing into the distribution point.If it would be helpful, I could make a PR with suggested improved text for these three issues, but I do not think I can do this with problem (1) because I do not understand what the intent of the nonexistent prefix=
variable was meant to be.
I would like to try out pop-os launcher/cosmic on my Ubuntu install. If I like them maybe I will switch to pop-os entirely.
As instructed by the README, I run
just build-release
. Then I run:Because I am just experimenting with it, I would prefer not to install the launcher "globally". I would prefer to install it to some alternate location, such as
/opt/pop
or~/usr
, so that if it doesn't work out I can just delete it. Like you can in C projects with./configure --prefix=/path/to
.The README does say that a
sudo just rootdir=debian/tmp prefix=/usr install
is supported if youbuild-vendored
. But I am not vendoring, and it seems that vendoring could have unusual side effects for which dependencies the compiled app is allowed to link against. I just want to build a local copy and install it to a non-default location.Could this be possible? I'm uncertain about trying to modify the build scripts myself as it seems some nontrivial things happen while installing and I've not used "just" before.