Using robotpkg to build openrobots

[http://softs.laas.fr/openrobots/robotpkg/README.html Robotpkg] is a set of build and packaging tools, inspired by [http://pkgsrc.se/ pkgsrc], designed to build and install OpenRobots packages.

Getting robotpkg

• Decide in which directory you'll install OpenRobots. We'll assume /usr/local/openrobots in this document.

  mkdir -p /usr/local/openrobots

• clone the [http://git.or.cz git] repository for robotpkg to your work space:

  cd /usr/local/openrobots
  mkdir src
  cd src
  git clone git://softs.laas.fr/git/robots/robotpkg

Bootstrapping

• edit your shell startup file :

  • set the ROBOTPKG_BASE environment variable to /usr/local/openrobots

  • add /usr/local/openrobots/bin:/usr/local/openrobots/sbin to your PATH

  • If you're using [t]csh this can be done by adding the following to ${HOME}/.login:

    # OpenRobots
    setenv PATH /usr/local/openrobots/bin:/usr/local/openrobots/sbin:$PATH
    setenv ROBOTPKG_BASE /usr/local/openrobots

  • If you're using bash or ksh, add the following to ${HOME}/.profile:

    # OpenRobots
    export PATH=/usr/local/openrobots/bin:/usr/local/openrobots/sbin:$PATH
    export ROBOTPKG_BASE=/usr/local/openrobots

• Run the bootstrap script from /usr/local/openrobots/src/robotpkg/bootstrap/

  cd /usr/local/openrobots/src/robotpkg/bootstrap
  ./bootstrap --prefix=/usr/local/openrobots

Building modules

• Go to the sub-directory of robotpkg corresponding to the package you want and run make install. For instance

  cd /usr/local/openrobots/src/robotpkg/hardware/platine-genom
  make install

  will install the platine module and all its dependencies (pocolibs, genom, hardlib, etc.)