Re: Question about installation configuration

[Eric Blake]

[re-adding the list]

On 04/04/2011 04:27 PM, Kevin Anthony wrote:
> I suppose i'm guilty of thinking your mind readers.
> 
> It compiles up on linux boxes, it does use autoconf, and right now i'm
> using --with-foo
> 
> But i need initial connection information for a MySQL server. so as it
> stands, ./configure looks like --with-mysql-server=ipaddress
> --with-mysql-user=username --with-mysql-pass=password
> --with-mysql-database=database
> 
> I was just wondering if there was an autoconf tool for initial configuration?

Autoconf only provides ./configure --with-mysql-server=ipaddress, so it
looks like you're already using it.

> 
> The other option was writing an initial start screen, but that would
> require an additional gsetting, as well as all the code that goes with
> checking for first start, every time my program runs.

If your program is a gui, then that may be more appropriate anyways -
especially since the person building your program for a distro is not
going to have the same preferences for default settings as the person
using your gui pre-built from a distro.  But that's well outside the
realm of autoconf, and something you may be better off asking on lists
dedicated to developing with gsetting or other comparable gui setting
managers.

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