Makepack 0.2.0

Makepack project is a Makefile which together with a settings file and some simple rule files are able to download, compile and install software for your Slackware installation.

As the installation is done using checkinstall a Slackware package is also created at the same time.

The big strenght of makepack is that it has mechanisms to keep track of dependencies when downloading and installing software.

Exemple:

$ make list

Numeric: Python package for scientific computing
SDL_image: Image file loading library
SDL_mixer: Sample multi-channel audio mixer library.
SDL_ttf: Library for using TrueType fonts in SDL applications.
angrydd: Angry, Drunken Dwarves, falling blocks puzzle game
atlas: Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS)
easytag: graphical (gtk) mp3 id3 tag editor
flac: library for Free Lossless Audio Codec
id3lib: library for mp3 id3 tags
ms-sys: Utility for writing microsoft compatible boot records
numpy: Python package for scientific computing
pygame: A set of Python modules designed for writing games
qemu: Generic processor emulator
smpeg: SDL MPEG Player Library

Whats New in This Release:

Upgraded the following rules:
MPlayer to version 1.0rc1
MPlayer_win_codecs to version 20061022, also
placed this file on a mirror as previos
versions has been removed from mplayerhq.
dvdauthor to version 0.6.14
gpgme to version 1.1.4
gphoto2 to version 2.3.1
jack to version 0.103.0
kqemu to version 1.3.0pre9, also changed dependencies so that
kqemu now depends on qemu instead of qemu depending on
kqemu. This might make sense for future versions of qemu
which might use kvm instead of kqemu.
qemu to version 0.9.0, qemu will not compile with gcc 4 which is
included with Slackware 12. Also, once compiled it does not
seem very stable.
lame to version 3.97
libdv to version 1.0.0
libdvdread to version 0.9.7
libggi to version 2.2.2
libgphoto2 to version 2.3.1
libgii to version 1.0.2
libgpg-error to version 1.5
libquicktime to version 1.0.0
libmpeg3 to version 1.7
libtheora to version 1.0alpha7
mjpegtools to version 1.9.0rc2
mpeg2dec to version 0.4.1
mplayerplug-in to version 3.40
nas to version 1.9
sylpheed to version 2.4.4
transcode to version 1.0.3
valgrind to version 3.2.3
xvidcore to version 1.1.3

New rules. Support for the following applications:
FileRunner http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/filerunner.html
Image-ExifTool http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
bfr http://www.glines.org/wiki/bfr
cdlabelgen http://www.aczoom.com/tools/cdinsert/
cstream http://www.cons.org/cracauer/cstream.html
cvsgraph http://www.akhphd.au.dk/~bertho/cvsgraph/
ddd http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
However, ddd does not compile on Slackware 12
dvgrab http://www.kinodv.org/
epstool http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm
gocr http://jocr.sourceforge.net/
gscanbus http://gscanbus.berlios.de/
gtimer http://www.k5n.us/gtimer.php
jhead http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/
kdiff3 http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
nedit http://www.nedit.org/
mercurial http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
privoxy http://www.privoxy.org/
pstoedit http://www.pstoedit.net/
rpc.rstatd http://rstatd.sourceforge.net/
saytime http://www.acme.com/software/saytime/
tor http://tor.eff.org/
wine http://www.winehq.org/

Support for the following libraries:
libavc1394 http://sourceforge.net/projects/libavc1394/
libdvdcss http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
libevent http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
libmpcdec http://www.musepack.net/
libraw1394 http://www.linux1394.org/
libiec61883 http://www.linux1394.org/
onig http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/
x264 http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html

Wildcards in REMOVE_FROM_PACKAGE now also works with newer
versions of tar.
This version of makepack is supposed to work with
Slackware 12. Unfortunately ddd does not compile on
Slackware 12 because of broken header files from X.org or
lesstif. If you really want ddd on Slackware 12 there are
instructions out there on how to modify those header files.