This is an ebuild for GNU prolog (gprolog). This prolog system is ISO compliant and has an added finite domain constraint solving system. There are several web sites for gprolog. The sourceforge site seems to be partially abandoned. The GNU site (www.gnu.org/software/prolog/prolog.html) seems authoritative. I suggest this go in dev-lang/gprolog. It has no special dependencies for building or running. Regards, Mark PS There was a small problem with the getting the text files in place. I abandoned trying to do it (they aren't that useful to me) but the sed part is commented out in the ebuild. However, the location I choose for them wasn't created at the right time and I didn't feel like fixing that. Basically, a small reordering in the makefile will get those text files installed also. Also, I performed a small hack to get the Makefile.in --> Makefile playing nicely with DISTDIR. This may be too kludgeish.
Created attachment 1571 [details] An ebuild for gprolog-1.2.13, the GNU prolog system
the ./configure statement seems to be just plain wrong to me fenner, I would suggest using econf and einstall instead of the stuff you have done. And the sed'ing really should not be necessary. Either way, please submit an ebuild that can be universally used before we can expect any developer to act on it.
I'm not an enormous fan of the ./configure line; however, this is the way the gprolog make process expects to find out about the directories. Adding DESTDIR seems twice as ugly, but it sets up the Makefile properly. The sed line is necessary to prevent some (non-essential) text files from being placed in the /usr directory. I don't feel the need to spend extra hours getting these files in the right spot. Someone who would like them that badly can do it. These files include ChangeLog, NEWS, COPYING, and one or two others. They are not essential. Unfortunately, I've never heard of econf or einstall. I haven't seen them in any ebuilds either. I'm a little confused as to the "universally used". The program is configured, built, and installed with all documentation. Anyone wishing to use prolog (gprolog) on their machine can make use of this script. The files are in the proper locations. It would be quite a shame for me to have to post this ebuild on a webpage so that others can make use of it (when they would likely never look for it). Regards, Mark
I'll start on this soon.
*ping* Just seeing if this is under active eyes or not.
Yes, still working on this. I've run it through our new, automated ebuild submission frontend, and it doesn't pass. I've purposely not fixed the flaws myself, as I need some eyes external to the project to give feedback on the new submission system. This ebuild was selected as it seemed likely I'd get sensible feedback from you ;) I'll get back to you with further instructions within the next few days.
Please merge dev-util/lintool and do 'lintool --show-details gprolog-1.2.13.ebuild '. It will tell you that there are a few minor issues you have to take care of. Also, please write a ChangeLog for this, you can check your ChangeLog for validity by doing 'lintool --show-details --changelog ChangeLog' when you've written it. After that, please reopen this bug with a new tarball attached.
