Arch linux builds need a meson prefix

[Scottapotamas]

Got my orbtrace mini today and I've been speedrunning getting all the tooling going, coming from a SeggerGDBServer style setup.

Issue

Blindly following this repo's docs will lead overly keen Arch Linux users into a pretty typical error when any orb* tool tries to load liborb.so from the default install path /usr/local/lib/liborb.so.

orbtrace: error while loading shared libraries: liborb.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Resolution

Arch Linux's packaging etiquette normally wants meson builds to be prefixed on /usr.

i.e. a more correct incantation for this repo's build is:

meson setup --prefix=/usr build

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I'm happy to PR a note into the docs if you want.

[mubes]

Hiya,
Yes, please generate a PR and add yourself to the CONTRIBUTORS file too. I can obviously make the change but it's easy to make a typo or miss something that's essential for the Arch case, whereas you can cut/paste it directly from a session.
Thanks
DAVE

[zyp]

I don't think this is an Arch issue, all distros tends to want packages installed under the /usr prefix. The issue here is that you're not building a package, you're building nonpackaged software, and the convention is to install that under /usr/local to keep it separate from packaged software.

That said, the best way to solve this for Arch would be to write a PKGBUILD and have it included in AUR, so it becomes a package that gets installed in /usr. 🙂

[mubes]

Fixed with a note in the readme in e3dba63. Thanks for the info.