On 12 Feb 2007, at 17:05, Nicola Pero wrote:
Thanks ... good points. I like the idea of doing it automatically
only if the user wants it, but I'm (personally) not too keen on
having scripts
that try to talk to the user and that require attention.
Maybe we could just print a warning at the end of compilation, saying
"Important: you may need to run ldconfig for your installed
libraries to work.
Tip: If you want gnustep-make to do it automatically for you,
please use the command
'make install ldconfig=yes'."
Then if you want gnustep-make to always do it for you (I will be
one of those
when I'm not testing crazy setups) you can just add ldconfig=yes to
your environment ...
Well, a lot of people do like the question/answer 'wizard' approach,
but I agree that it can be irritating for an expert.
Maybe we could have a new target 'make interactive' which would
invoke the 'install' target and then go into the interactive mode to
guide people through any setup operations like the ldconfig stuff or
setting up startup/boot scripts to run daemons. Or maybe a separate
interactive setup script, Or maybe we could re-use the facilities of
some native installer/package manager to do the interactive stuff?
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