Snapcraft

Add support for overriding the Makefile location in makefile part type

Bug #1500759 reported by Zygmunt Krynicki
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Snapcraft
Status tracked in Trunk
1.x
Fix Released
Medium
Kyle Fazzari
Snapcraft 1.0.1
Trunk
Fix Released
Medium
Kyle Fazzari
Snapcraft 2.1

Bug Description

For some non-trivial projects, a snapcraft part developer might like to ship a makefile in the source tree of the snap without having to modify an existing source tarball of a 3rd party project. For that use case, the developer could use the optional "makefile" part attribute to override the makefile executed by snapcraft to build that given part.

For example:

parts:
    foo:
        type: makefile
        makefile: Makefile.foo

This would cause snapcraft to run the following command at part build time:

make -f Makefile.foo -C parts/foo/build

Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)
Changed in snapcraft:
assignee: nobody → Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)
milestone: none → 0.3
importance: Undecided → Medium
Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)
Changed in snapcraft:
milestone: 0.3 → none
assignee: Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) → nobody
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Leo Arias (elopio) wrote :

Moved to https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/issues/22

Changed in snapcraft:
status: New → Invalid
Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)
Changed in snapcraft:
status: Invalid → Triaged
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Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa) wrote :

Would using source-subdir here solve this problem?

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Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens) wrote : Re: [Bug 1500759] Re: Add support for overriding the Makefile location in makefile part type

That is something different.

Some projects do things like this

Makefile.linux
Makefile.osx
Makefile.bsd

and so on, without any magic selection mechanism, so it needs to be
manually set.

Others use different makefiles as "configuration bundles"

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Kyle Fazzari <email address hidden> wrote:

> Would using source-subdir here solve this problem?
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Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa) wrote :

Ah sure, that makes sense.

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Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa) wrote :

Fix here: https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/pull/264

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