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Gareth Anderson wrote:

> I'm wishing to use AAP or a similar system to assist me in configuring
> a complex shell script(s).
> 
> I've looked at autoconf and it looked very confusing, so I started
> looking into AAP and it seems better than some of the other similar
> systems for what I want to do (I think). If anyone has other
> recommendations for what I am trying to do please tell me.
> 
> My main quesion would be, is there an easy way to check that particular
> libraries/programs are installed and of particular versions?
> 
> If you look here: http://karakas-online.de/mySGML/ you will see what I
> am referring to. There's more files than listed there and some of them
> require particular verisons.
> 
> Simplifying the program cannot be done, its not a program in itself
> but a bunch of scripts written by Chris Karakas that tie together
> various systems that go from Docbook SGML to PDF/TXT/RTF/HTML output
> at the press of a button (well thats the idea :)). The problem is the
> complexity is making everything work together nicely and getting the
> scripts setup and installed (which is what I'm working on).
> 
> I noticed that the Vi example recipe mentioned a depends:
> http://www.a-a-p.org/examples.html
> "DEPENDS = gtk>=1.2<2.0 | motif>=1.2 # GTK 2.0 doesn't work yet"

If you are willing to write Python and improve this part of Aap then 
it will be a good starting point.  Otherwise I would recommend not using
the "port recipe".  I implemented this once when I was looking into using
this for BSD, but have not worked on it since then.  There are a few
parts that are not implemented.  Some parts may not work properly, there
has hardly been any serious testing.

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Hi Bram,

> I noticed that the Vi example recipe mentioned a depends:
> > http://www.a-a-p.org/examples.html
> > "DEPENDS =3D gtk>=3D1.2<2.0 | motif>=3D1.2 # GTK 2.0 doesn't work yet"
>
> If you are willing to write Python and improve this part of Aap then
> it will be a good starting point.  Otherwise I would recommend not using
> the "port recipe".  I implemented this once when I was looking into using
> this for BSD, but have not worked on it since then.  There are a few
> parts that are not implemented.  Some parts may not work properly, there
> has hardly been any serious testing.
>

Right, well then I will not use that recipe.

Do you have a recommendation of how I may go about dependency checking for
programs that should be installed (using AAP, or do you recommend some othe=
r
software here...)?

As thats most of what my script will be doing, checking for versions (thats
the first aim, I'll worry about more advanced stuff later).

Thankyou,
Gareth

Gareth Anderson wrote:

> > I noticed that the Vi example recipe mentioned a depends:
> > > http://www.a-a-p.org/examples.html
> > > "DEPENDS =3D gtk>=3D1.2<2.0 | motif>=3D1.2 # GTK 2.0 doesn't work yet"
> >
> > If you are willing to write Python and improve this part of Aap then
> > it will be a good starting point.  Otherwise I would recommend not using
> > the "port recipe".  I implemented this once when I was looking into using
> > this for BSD, but have not worked on it since then.  There are a few
> > parts that are not implemented.  Some parts may not work properly, there
> > has hardly been any serious testing.
> >
> 
> Right, well then I will not use that recipe.
> 
> Do you have a recommendation of how I may go about dependency checking for
> programs that should be installed (using AAP, or do you recommend some other
> software here...)?
> 
> As thats most of what my script will be doing, checking for versions (thats
> the first aim, I'll worry about more advanced stuff later).

If you mean dependency checking as in checking if include files changed,
Aap will do that perfectly.

But I suspect you actually want some kind of automatic configuration.
There are a few things in Aap for this, but it's not very advanced.

The tool usually used for this is GNU autoconf.  But it's complicated,
requires good knowledge of shell commands and M4, easy to make mistakes
both by the author and by the user...

I'm still hoping someone will extend the ":conf" stuff in Aap, that will
help a lot of people.  Then you can use Python instead of M4 and Shell
commands.

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On Friday 10 March 2006 11:47, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> I'm still hoping someone will extend the ":conf" stuff in Aap, that will
> help a lot of people. =A0Then you can use Python instead of M4 and Shell
> commands.

One idea would be to create a :conf pkg <blabla> that passes <blabla> to=20
pkg-config; that will cover a lot of ground in one go by leveraging the=20
existing pkg-config tool.