Compile.conf

From GoboLinux Knowledge Base

Compile.conf is the file where you can configure the various paths and URLs used by Compile.

It is stored at /Programs/Compile/Settings/Compile/Compile.conf -- which, once installed, has a link at /System/Settings/Compile/Compile.conf (if you're used to the GoboLinux tree, you should know by now that this is the same as /etc/Compile/Compile.conf).

These are the usual contents of the file:

Your name here so that credit is added to recipes.

compileRecipeAuthor="Paul McCartney"
# example only! change the name (unless of course, you're Paul ;) )

The standard locations for your local Compile files.

compileDir="${goboPrefix}/Files/Compile"
compileDependenciesDir="$compileDir/Recipes"
compileArchivesDir="$compileDir/Archives"
compileSourcesDir="$compileDir/Sources"

You can have a series of local directories to search for unpacked recipes (ie, directories containing recipe subdirectories):

compileRecipeDirs=(
"$compileDir/LocalRecipes"
"$compileDir/Recipes"
)

Please note that if you uncomment the "$compileDir/LocalRecipes" line, then you can ignore local recipes.

This is where the remote recipes are fetched.

getRecipeStores=(
"http://gobolinux.org/recipe-store"
"http://gobo.calica.com/recipe-store"
)

The following variable indicates where GetRecipe places its recipes. Ideally, it should match $compileRecipeDirs:

getRecipeRecipeDir="$compileDir/Recipes"

These specify the source and destination to GenRecipeStore:

genRecipeRecipeDir="$compileDir/LocalRecipes"
genRecipeStoreDir="$compileDir/Store"

Some of the main free software repositories are treated especially: recipes use these variables in their url declarations, so that you can pick your favorite mirror without having to edit recipes one by one:

ftpGnu=ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/
ftpAlphaGnu=ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/
httpSourceforge=http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/