Installation and usage

Installation and usage
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RPM and DEB packages

These are not the same packages as the ones from various distributions' repositories. These packages carry an higher internal revision level in order to prevent them from getting upgraded by the distribution packaging. This packaging exists in order to have a convenient way of updating after a release without waiting for the distribution's package to get built.

Note

If a distribution package is already installed it should be removed completely before switching to the upstream version (dnf remove or apt purge). Preserve any existing configuration files, beforehand, in order to reconfigure the package.

Note

These packages use their own, generic, installation layout that may deviate slightly from the package installation conventions that's preferred by the distributions.

RPM builds

It is not necessary to unpack this tarball in order to build this tarball.

Run “dnf install rpm-build” if it's not installed already, then:

            $ rpmbuild -ta courier-unicode-VERSION.tar.bz2

If this fails due to any missing dependencies, install them. This builds the main “courier-unicode” package with runtime libraries, and the “courier-unicode-devel” package with link libraries and header files.

            $ rpmbuild --define 'compat 1' -ta courier-unicode-VERSION.tar.bz2

Setting the “compat 1” flag during an RPM build produces a differently-named “compatibility” runtime package, with its version as part of the package's name. The compatibility package gets installed together with the newer version of this library that introduces a binary ABI change. This supports a transition period during which other software that's built to the compatibility package's ABI version continue to load the compatibility package's library at runtime, while new software can be built against the newer ABI.

DEB builds

Run “apt install devscripts debhelper”, if it's not installed already. Create an empty directory, and copy/move the tarball into it:

            $ mkdir tmp
            $ mv courier-unicode-VERSION.tar.bz2 tmp
            $ cd tmp

Unpack the tarball and cd into the unpacked subdirectory:

            $ tar xvf courier-unicode-VERSION.tar.bz2
            $ cd courier-unicode-VERSION

Run the courier-debuild script, which is a wrapper for debuild, and forwards its parameters to it:

            $ ./courier-debuild -us -uc

Note

The above steps must be followed strictly. The courier-debuild script expects the distributed tarball in its parent directory.

This eventually produces a deb subdirectory with .deb packages that can be installed with "dpkg -i":

The “libcourier-unicode-dev” package contains the development libraries and header files, for building other packages that use the Courier Unicode Library.
The “libcourier-unicode<N>” package contains the runtime library.

            $ DEBGCC=10 ./courier-debuild -us -uc

Setting the DEBGCC environment variable selects a non-default gcc version.

Note

All Courier packages should be built using the same version of gcc.

Manual

          ./configure    # Takes the default configure script options
          make
          make install DESTDIR=/tmp/courier-unicode-instimage # For example.

The library uses a stock configure script, make and make install command that respects the DESTDIR setting to create an installation image in the directory specified by DESTDIR.

Note

make install does not take any explicit action to uninstall any older version of the library, or remove any files from an older version that do not exist any more in the new version. Use the created installation image to prepare an installable package in a native package format for your operating system distribution. Use your distribution's native package manager to properly install and update this library.

Maintainer Mode (see README in the git repository to set up)

make rpm or make deb, as appropriate, will:

Increment an internal release number.
Run make dist.
Proceed and build a new release, creating the native packages in the rpm or deb subdirectory.
Execute either $HOME/bin/rpmrepos.sh or $HOME/bin/debrepos.sh. This can be a script that does nothing, or it's intended to be the maintainer's script that pushes out the packages to a repository.