[Apachetoolbox-devel] ATB 1.5.63: make fails when installing in non-std locations

[Toni M. <su...@oe...>]

Hello,

I wanted to install a new version of Apache using the current ATB
version. When I told the script to go compile, it wasn't able
to install the first package because there were no appropriate
directories available.

An appropriate way to ensure that the required directories exist
would be to have a small script that runs before the other ones
in 'bin' that would check, and generate, these directories if
needed, and/or bail out with an appropriate error message, so
the user can fix the problem early.

I'm about to make such a script, only that I don't currently
overcome the problem of getting space separated values in
etc/config.cache lumped into one variable in a shell script.
If it were permissible to do it in Perl, it would be attached.


Best,
--Toni++