Package distribution on Linux

[posophe]

Hello everybody !

I am a Linux packager for opensuse and try to package a cef binarie first for opensuse, and next need to discuss with distros developpers to include it on major distribution.
When I launch gyp -f make cef.gyp I get an error message from svn 'not a working copy'. The problem is that I need to manually define a revision for cef because I can't include svn hidden files or let an automatic script to make everything, and I can't used svn into a build process. The question is: How can I bypass this error ?

Thanks for your answers.
Regards

Benjamin

[magreenblatt]

The cef_create_projects.sh script is normally used for this purpose. Are you having a problem using that script?

[posophe]

Yes I have because the script can't establish the revision because the .svn files have been removed. In fact I thinked more as a sed -e "revision" on the line revision': of cef.gyp, but I don't know how to use it but if somebody has an idea of command it will be great

[magreenblatt]

If you're trying to build libcef then you should follow the build instructions at http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedd ... ndBuilding which requires a valid SVN checkout. You can then create a binary distribution using make_distrib.sh which has no SVN dependencies. I believe the binary distribution is what you would then want to package for your distro.

[posophe]

I know how to build cef. It is not the main problem. Do you know what is the output of python tools/revision.py ? It is only the revision or the version too ?
I can work on it if it is only that. The problem is the format: r(revision_number) ? Only (revision_number) ?
When I had download cef, I have verify the compatibility, download the chromium needed version and that for one good reason: in a build environment (OBS in that case), a software can't use internet. This is the reason I can't call svn for it verify the revision. How to disable this step, if you prefer ?

[posophe]

PS: I have read again your post and see my error. cefclient is not really important for a distribution. Do you mean I can build libcef only ?

[magreenblatt]

I know how to build cef. It is not the main problem. Do you know what is the output of python tools/revision.py ? It is only the revision or the version too ?

Just the revision (e.g. "980"). This is used as part of the version number.

PS: I have read again your post and see my error. cefclient is not really important for a distribution. Do you mean I can build libcef only ?

Yes, you can build just libcef by specifying that as your build target. But libcef still includes version information.

[posophe]

Thanks you. You have really help me. I will make modifications on the specfile. Later I will need some informations for subpackages names, external scripts... I will ask all I need on this topic.

Again, thanks you.
Regards.
Benjamin

[posophe]

Finally I come back to you with about the same problem. During the build process, at the first step I have this output ( sorry I don't speak the python) :
File "cef.gyp", line 12

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[  175s]     'version_mac_dylib':
[  175s]                        ^
[  175s] SyntaxError: invalid syntax

As you know, for define the revision I use this command:

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for i in cef.gyp; do
      sed -i "s|'<!(python tools/revision.py)',|'%{_rev}'|g" $i
done

But I assume that:

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'revision': '<!(python tools/revision.py)',
    # Need to be creative to match dylib version formatting requirements.
    'version_mac_dylib':
        '<!(python ../chrome/tools/build/version.py -f VERSION -f ../chrome/VERSION -t "@CEF_MAJOR@<(revision).@BUILD_HI@.@BUILD_LO@" -e "BUILD_HI=int(BUILD)/256" -e "BUILD_LO=int(BUILD)%256")',

is one command and need to be set too. What is the normal output with chromiumembedded-3.1271.844 and chromium-23.0.1271.18.tar.bz2 ?

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'revision': '844',
    # Need to be creative to match dylib version formatting requirements.
    'version_mac_dylib':
        'x.y',

? Or on one line only ?

Next, I think I will follow your advices about libcef to build only this one but for instance it is only to successfully build cef that interest me. Perhaps more later...

Regards.
Posophe

[posophe]

I have fix the previous error it was a typo mistake. But now I get this one:

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NameError: name 'os_posix' is not defined while evaluating condition 'os_posix==1 and OS!="mac" and OS!="android" and gcc_version>=46' in cef.gyp while trying to load cef.gyp

I have search when this one appears and why, but I have not found any respond.
How can I fix it and why dos it appear ?

Regards.
Posophe