RE: [binarycloud-dev] Make

[Jimmy H. <ji...@ha...>]

Justin,

_scratch, _scratch... :)

> Uh, oh.  BSD...  I am a BSD ignoramus.  And, if you are
> using the C shell, some of the things I suggested _may_ not 
> work. I assumed a Bourne/bash shell...  

I tried on CSH and Bash. The only difference is the way to set the
environment variable.
- Same problem

> some potential "problems" that I am going out on a limb on, 
> like I "think" that Odysseas is assuming gnu Make extended 
> functionality, which BSD make(1)j _may_ not have.  Boy, I 
> just don't know. 

I believe FreeBSD is using gnumake.


> First, the tarball.  Yes, it is on the site in "downloads"
> and when you see as the URL:http: 
> //www.binarycloud.com/download/ and mouse over the 
> binarycloud r2 pre-release downloads you should see:

OK that's the one I am using

> 1.  Get the tarball

Done

> 2.  Do something like make a ./tmp directory in
> 	your home to keep things clean and untar
> 	it there

I untarred it to ~/r2/

> 3.  Set BCHOME to your_home/tmp/r2/binarycloud
> 	and make the environment and the decendant
> 	shell environment to your_home/tmp/r2/binarycloud
> 	in the way that your shell requires

done

> 4.  Type make

Didn't work as reported.

> 
> Caveats:
> -  I am afraid, but do not know, that the BSD make(1) will
> 	not honor the
> 	include Makefile.in
> 	directive in Makefile

It honored it. This is proven that by setting BCHOME it started looking
at the BCHOME directory instead of /user

> - I am afraid, but do not know, that you will not have a
> 	compiled executable of php on your sustem, and
> 	would have to go get the source (package in BSD??)
> 	and compile it.  Building binarydloud assumes
> 	that a php executable is available.  I don't
> 	even know if BSD has which(1).  What do you get
> 	when you type "which php" on the command line?

I have it. I located it and tried running it, it works.

> _scratch

_scratch _scratch..... :(