From: Jag Talon <jag@aangat.lahat.computer>
Subject: Re: [Maintainer update] Add FLAVOR to emulator/minivmac
To: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>, "Anthony J. Bentley" <bentley@openbsd.org>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org, George Koehler <kernigh@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:48:58 -0400

Thanks for the help! If I'm understanding correctly, I should still use
FLAVORS instead of MULTI_PACKAGES but do it in a way so that the
flavors don't conflict with one another?

Attached is my attempt to do that, but when running `make install` it
seems to install minivmac-36.04 but with the binary for minivmac-ii-
36.04.

I'll continue to chip away at it, but I think I'm still struggling to
understand so a second pair of eyes would be appreciated!

On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 09:29 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> If it is indeed possible to get it to build many binaries in a single
> build then subpackages would be a good way to handle it. But seeing
> as the build type is passed to the configure script I thought it
> would probably be a pain to do that so I suggested flavours.
> 
> You can rename the installed binary so the flavours don't conflict.
> Easiest way to handle the PLIST is probably to name the files
> (binary, desktop file, etc) based on the flavour (e.g. minivmac-ii)
> set a variable with the extension part ("SUFFIX=-ii") set that in
> SUBST_VARS ("SUBST_VARS=SUFFIX") and use that in PLIST
> ("bin/minivmac${SUFFIX}")
> 
> The other step to allow installing together is to adjust FULLPKGNAME
> so that pkg_add doesn't treat them as conflicting. With the above,
> FULLPKGNAME=minivmac${SUFFIX}-${V} should do.
> 
> -- 
>   Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 30 July 2024 07:22:24 "Anthony J. Bentley" <bentley@openbsd.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Jag Talon writes:
> > > By default, Mini vMac emulates a Macintosh Plus. Another popular
> > > model
> > > that Mini vMac emulates is a Macintosh II because it offers more
> > > memory
> > > (8MB instead of 4MB), a larger screen, and color.
> > > 
> > 
> > So /usr/local/bin/minivmac will emulate only one machine or the
> > other
> > depending on which flavor is installed. Can you convince the build
> > system
> > to generate emulators for multiple machines as separate executables
> > that
> > could be installed side by side? Because if someone is interested
> > in
> > emulating both types of machines, it would be a real pain to have
> > to run
> > pkg_delete and pkg_add every time to switch between them.
> > 
> 

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