[Indic-computing-devel] Re: [doc-toolchain] bmake - already exists on debian or rh?

[Cherry G. M. <ber...@ya...>]

Dear Alok, List,

First of all, apologies for the delay. My shell a/c
admin and the lists.sf.net admin had a difference of
opinion over the last month. And I was left out in the
cold. So its back to good old web-based email for some
time now.....


>> Dear Cherry, and list,
 
 >> dependancy. Do tell me if you find one. Can move
this
 >> discussion to indic-computing-devel, btw ? HTH,
 
[...] 
 
 >Incidentally, uname -a would never tell me I'm using
a redhat distro.
[...]
 >So how does a shell script know which distro it's
being run on?


On RedHat Linux systems, the rc.sysinit script
verifies that its working on an RH system like this:

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# Print a text banner.
echo -en $"\t\tWelcome to "
if LC_ALL=C grep -q "Red Hat" /etc/redhat-release ;
then
 [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && echo -en "\\033[0;31m"
 echo -en "Red Hat"
 [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && echo -en "\\033[0;39m"
 PRODUCT=`sed "s/Red Hat \(.*\) release.*/\1/"
/etc/redhat-release`
 echo " $PRODUCT"
else
 PRODUCT=`sed "s/ release.*//g" /etc/redhat-release`
 echo "$PRODUCT"
fi
if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then
 echo -en $"\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive
startup."
 echo
 sleep 1
fi
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 >Have been banking on deb2rpm once Cherry gets it
going. Cherry, would 
 the output of your efforts be a .deb?
 

Yes, that's the idea. When the .deb gets included in
the apt-get system, dependencies get resolved
automatically, which is the objective of the effort in
the first place - a tool _chain_.

Sorry about the late reply once again. Haven't looked
at the sources in a while. Koshy, could you please
post the exact diff to the share/mk tree which I sent
you ? 

Thanks,

Best Wishes,

Cherry.






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