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preflight.sh: please review <VirusChecked>
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Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf |
Subject: |
preflight.sh: please review <VirusChecked> |
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Sun, 10 Mar 2002 02:46:53 +0100 |
Hi everybody,
looking forward the GNUstep article in the german C't magazine and the
echo it might have (lot's of newbees showing interest in GNUstep
hopefully) I decided to sit down and write (or better: compile) a
standalone script which checks your system for all the stuff required by
GNUstep.
But as a matter of fact building GNUstep is not easy for a novice. If you
for instance miss some important libs you'll not note this until actually
building GNUstep, what could require you to start over several times -
very anoying and daunting.
A configure like script that just nothing configures but just checks for
the required libraries and tools and reports that in a easy understandable
way to the user (maybe with a hint where to get them) would ease the build
process very much.
I called this script preflight.sh
Now after some work is done I want to present it to you for review. This
is an initial version of preflight.sh which still might contain some bugs
(I hope on you here since I don't own every machine that script is
targeted for.) and I think still a lot of overhead (code that can be
removed).
What have I done?
I mainly put together tests that seemed relevant to me from various
configure scripts (make, base, gui, xgps, xdps). Since I am not that
experienced I might have some irrelevant tests in it while other important
test might be missing. Here I need someone who points me to the right
direction. (I could need a list where the various requirements are pointed
out togehter with their relevance (e.g. required (GNUstep won't run
without), recommended (GNUstep runs much better with this), optional (Not
necessary but good to have))
Don't be afraid of the script. It doesn't write anything to your hard
disk.
Thanks for your help (or should I say co-work?), Lars
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