Hi,
A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
- Using "cat" is OK as long as you can be sure that you'll get them in
numeric order: this is usually the case on Unix but not necessarily on
Dos, where a wildcarded filename usually gets its results in directory
order, not sorted by filename.
Well, you are right: I'm on Linux and wasn't aware of the different DOS
sorting order. So, the following below applies to Linux/Unix only ...
- By patching individually, if one of the patches fails horribly you may
decide not to try the following.
- Usually there aren't more than a handful of _new_ patches anyway, so
(except when starting from scratch with many patches already published)
it's hardly worth the trouble going to a cat step.
What you have described even on your Web page, IMHO still too much manual
work. After downloading new patches with "ncftp" I just type "make all"
with the following Makefile:
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PREFIX=/usr/local
help:
@echo "Available targets:"
@echo " all"
@echo " install"
@echo " clean"
all: clean
tar xfj vim-7.1.tar.bz2
tar xfz vim-7.1-lang.tar.gz
tar xfz vim-7.1-extra.tar.gz
cat vim-7.1.patches/7.1.* > patchfile
(cd vim71 ; patch -p0 < ../patchfile)
(cd vim71 ; ./configure --prefix=$(PREFIX) --with-x --enable-gui=gtk2
--enable-multibyte --enable-xim --enable-fontset --enable-perlinterp
--enable-cscope && make)
install:
(cd vim71; umask 022; installwatch -o
/home/steve/install.log/vim-7.1.log make install)
chmod 644 /home/steve/install.log/vim-7.1.log
clean:
rm -rf patchfile
rm -rf vim71
.PHONY: help all install clean
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... and everything is done in less than 150 sec. Works for me for a long
time and starting from scratch keeps me out of trouble with old objects,
etc. Should not happen with make ... yes, this is what optimists always
say, but there is still Murphy ;).
BTW, "make" should stop when "patch" or any other action fails.
Interesting would be an extension to download the patches automagically.
Comments & ideas ?
Regards,
Stephan.
