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Re: looking for comments on this installation program
- To: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: looking for comments on this installation program
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
- Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 13:53:15 -0400
On 17 May 1998 10:29:58 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> writes:
>
>> In fact I was going to pull most of the installation code out of the
>> Makefiles; instead, each subdir that wants to install things would
>> have a short `Instfile' listing all the files to install. make
>> install would then glom all the files together, substitute the
>> prefix and install_root, and call my program.
>
>We must have dynamically generated files. There is no single static
>set of files.
>
>I think generating a file containing the from- and to-names while
>running through all the subdirs is ok.
Ok that's doable (and may get rid of my perl problem :)
My development machine is off the network for a week or so, so it'll be
awhile.
zw