Re: Asking for a tutorial to solve two different cases

[John Calcote]

Hi Glus,

On 10/15/2009 9:41 AM, Glus wrote:
> I'm developping an application. The question is that once installed I'd like
> to find it hanged to my Gnome general applications menu. For this, I'm
> searching the info about how should I configure the autotools files project.
>
> I'd like to take the opportunity to ask you also the same but in the case of
> a server. How should I do to update /etc/services, /etc/rc.Xd/, to transfer
> permissions...   ???
>    

Neither of these situations is handled directly by either Autoconf or 
Automake. These are really very much OS- and desktop-specific issues. 
You'll have to research various other forums to find out more about them.

I suggest looking at the Gnome desktop forums at 
http://gnomesupport.org/forums to ask about what sorts of files need to 
be installed and where in order to add menu items and links.

While it's true that installing daemons and server software is more a 
general Unix topic, the way these types of services are installed and 
manipulated is very different from one Unix to another. Linux has only 
recently standardized some aspects of this activity. For installing 
Linux services, you might check with linuxforums.org, or forums 
associated with your particular flavor of Linux (Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat, 
Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, etc. All of these have developer forums of 
their own).

Once you have the specific information on what files to install where, 
then you can write hand-coded rules in Automake Makefile.am files to put 
these files in the right locations. Be aware, however, that the more of 
this activity you do in your Automake makefiles, the less portable 
they'll likely be.

Regards,
John