Hello guys. After a lot of time, I decided to learn how to make a .recipe file. I’m trying with a very simple app made in Qt, that compiles in Haiku without any change to the default sources.
However, I’m having some issues related to the .recipe file. When running it with the haikuporter command, It get stuck at the following message:
waiting for build package qview_x86-2.0-1 to be activated
waiting for build package qview_x86-2.0-1 to be activated
waiting for build package qview_x86-2.0-1 to be activated
waiting for build package qview_x86-2.0-1 to be activated
A couple things you need to look at in your receipe that will prevent qView from building. First, rename your receipe to qview-2.0, not qview-20. You will need to check your architecture, I built my build on x86_64, which wasn’t listed and you have !x86_gcc2 listed also.
check your BUILD_ REQUIRES as you have some libs that are not required, along with adding to your BUILD_ PREQUIRES, the cmd for make.
In the BUILD portion of your receipe you will need to add qmake qView.pro, and finally you will have to work on getting it to install in the app directory. Currently it’s not installing in the app directory. The executable in the build is looking to be installed in /usr/bin
You probably have a mismatch between the recipe name and the PROVIDES entry or something like that. Then the package is activated under a different name and haikuporter does not find it and waits forever.
It’s a lot easier to work from a pull request to debug things. Here we can talk about the recipe for weeks and still have no answer. With a pull request, people can try it and give more useful feedback.
Thats right but there is the first place people come?
We should have a instruction part on the top position of the forum there descriptions are (closed, no comments). Descriptions like there to post a bug report
We do not epect perfect recipes when somebody opens a new pr, but it would be great if one would use the most efficient way to show the problem, eg. posting the actual recipe, and if somebody posts it, then why here, why not directly at github?
Please do not expect us to burn our time to find out the problem like a paraphenomen, help us to be able to help!
We should never talk about recipes here imho.
To be honest? I sometimes check in here to see what’s been posted, I see when PR’s (and not only me) are created at haikuports, it’s a lot easier to reply there and try to give instructions on what needs to be changed (or suggestions on how it could be done better).
We can react here (and when it comes to recipes I’ll try to look for questions here also), but trying to give straight and meaningful answers isn’t easy if you can’t see the source for the recipe)
I want to thank @Begasus and @humdinger for the help and suggestions done. I just need to deep into the .rdef files to learn how to add the extended attributes. Hope I will update this soon.
