Re: [Oorexx-devel] Install Script Question

[David A. <dav...@gm...>]

  Mark is correct. make install should only be used by a developer. To be honest 
though, I am not sure that it even works for the ooRexx build as I never use it.

David Ashley

On 08/11/2010 09:47 AM, Mark Miesfeld wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:32 AM, CVBruce<cv...@gm...>  wrote:
>> ...
>> There are really two situations where a post install
>> script gets executed, when installing from source and when installing
>> from an installer package.  It would be best if one script did both.
>>
>> So after I tailor the file during make install, how do I find the
>> place to execute it so that it will be called after everything has
>> been moved into /opt/ooRexx.
> For the other OSes, I don't think we do anything to set up the links
> in make install.  As I recall, make install on Linux doesn't work that
> well.  David is more knowledgeable in this area.
>
> I'm not saying we couldn't improve that, it just is not a high
> priority.  I've always sort of felt that "make install" is for a
> developer and she can figure out what to do on her own.
>
> In general, what I think is important, is having a good installation
> program for the user  The majority of Rexx users are people that don't
> have the background or skill set to build the interpreter from source.
>   I'd think that is even more true for the Mac user.
>
> So, I'd like to see a good, working, make macpackage target that
> builds a Mac OSX installation package that we can put up on
> SourceForge, before worrying about "make install."<grin>
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
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