Re: [Devil-linux-develop] distcc/input files/install-on-usb

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On 04/23/2004 09:44:32 AM Peter Frischknecht wrote:
>Help me out...please.
>
>A few questions:
>
>1-
>If you do a 'make build' w/o distcc and later you decided to enable
>distcc compilation, it does NOT make use of distcc.
>
>I don't want to do an mrproper and have to decompress all the files
>again.  What file, switch, setting do I change to enable distcc
>compilation "after" a first run of 'make build'?

The distcc stuff is not tested very good and could break anyway....
Try this:
scripts/build.sh build opt=prepare
scripts/build.sh build opt=distcc

>2-
>You mentioned using an input file to answer questions if a Makefile
>prompts for answers during the build phase.  Can you give me an example
>of such app/input file?

You have to patch the Makefile.PL , remove the prompt and initialize the
variable with a pre-defined value.
Check the patch files in the src/perl-ext directory to see some examples.

>3-
>what/how do I use the install-on-usb script.
>I made the DUMB mistake of copying it from scripts/scripts to /build and
>ran it.  It deleted my entire tmp folder.  I was so pissed.
>Oh well.  Just tell me how to use it correctly.

after a make dist everything is in the build/dist folder
Just go in there and execute it, it will guide you through the rest.

Heiko