On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 10:49 AM, Pug Bainter wrote:


Ricardo Kleemann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like:
Is there a way for mailman's configure script to detect the
current settings (such as --with-username, --with-mail-gid and so on)?

Or is there a quick way for me to manually check what they
should be?

I always keep my build directory for at least one version back. Because of that, I can look at the top of the config.status file to see how I called configure.

Not to one-up you but...


I record the steps I take to build something in a script, so that the next time I build something I can edit the script a little and run it. Lately I've added a boilerplate at the top that sets the PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other variables so that things are 100% repeatable. (You'd be surprised at the number of times I need to make subtle changes to the PATH to get something to build.)

Eventually I made the editing easier by changing version numbers to variables, which are all set at the top of the script.

And not to brag, but you should see my BUILD_APACHE.sh script. It gets apache, php, mod_perl, checks the md5 checksums, builds everything, and does the install. And I only have to change variables at the top each time a new version is released.

I highly recommend this technique for anyone that upgrades UNIX packages frequently.

--tal


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