All good points Mark. Although as you can see, I'm finding it easier to install from source than to build a #...@*!@ installer package.
Bruce On Aug 11, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Mark Miesfeld wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:32 AM, CVBruce <cvbr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ... >> There are really two situations where a post install >> script gets executed, when installing from source and when installing >> from an installer package. It would be best if one script did both. >> >> So after I tailor the file during make install, how do I find the >> place to execute it so that it will be called after everything has >> been moved into /opt/ooRexx. > > For the other OSes, I don't think we do anything to set up the links > in make install. As I recall, make install on Linux doesn't work that > well. David is more knowledgeable in this area. > > I'm not saying we couldn't improve that, it just is not a high > priority. I've always sort of felt that "make install" is for a > developer and she can figure out what to do on her own. > > In general, what I think is important, is having a good installation > program for the user The majority of Rexx users are people that don't > have the background or skill set to build the interpreter from source. > I'd think that is even more true for the Mac user. > > So, I'd like to see a good, working, make macpackage target that > builds a Mac OSX installation package that we can put up on > SourceForge, before worrying about "make install." <grin> > > -- > Mark Miesfeld > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
