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From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [ptxdist] extract tarballs with no toplevel directory
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 05:52:39PM -0500, Jon Ringle wrote:
> Most source tarballs have a top level directory in the form of
> package-version, but I've run into one that doesn't conform to this
> standard practice.
> I'm trying to build a .make file for pugixml-1.2 (
> http://pugixml.googlecode.com/files/pugixml-1.2.tar.gz), but there is no
> directory pugixml-1.2/ as the toplevel directory. Instead everything is in
> the ./ directory that you would expect to be in a pugixml-1.2/ directory.
> When ptxdist extracts it, it seems to find all the subdirectories that are
> at the top level, and puts them all together in a pugixml-1.2/ directory
> that it has created, which changes the file/directory structure that was
> originally in the tar ball to begin with, and the source does not build.
> 
> How can I solve this?

Take a look at rules/ckermit.make. This package has the same problem. You
just need to set:
<PKG>_STRIP_LEVEL	:= 0

Michael

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