Hello Tim, 2006/2/17, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [ about the correct path to awk binary ] > i'm open to suggestions about how to fix this.
A suggestion: use a ./configure that look for those binaries and write the Makefile. Suggestion for the one who would like to tackle this issue: you'll find in http://www.linux-france.org/~dmentre/demexp/latest-src/demexp--dev--0.7.tar.gz a configure script written from scratch. It is under GPL license but, as the unique author of that code, I give permission to any coder of Axiom project to reuse it under Axiom's BSD-like license. ----searchpath shell script (don't know where it comes from)------ #!/bin/sh # Find a program in the path IFS=':' for dir in $PATH; do if test -z "$dir"; then dir=.; fi if test -f $dir/$1; then exit 0; fi done exit 1 ----------------------- It could be used like this: # do we have ocaml? echo -n "Looking for ocamlc... " if sh ./searchpath ocamlc; then echo "found"; else echo "not found"; echo "*** OCaml compiler is required for compilation"; echo "*** Please install the package or compile following instructions found"; echo "*** in README. Source archive available at"; echo "*** http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/distrib.html";; exit 2; fi It would be better if searchpath would return the found path. Here is a modified searchpath that does this : #!/bin/sh # Find a program in the path and prints its location if found IFS=':' for dir in $PATH; do if test -z "$dir"; then dir=.; fi if test -f $dir/$1; then echo $dir/$1; exit 0; fi done exit 1 It should be used like this: #!/bin/sh # do we have awk? echo -n "Looking for awk... " awk_path=`./searchpath awk` if [ $? == 0 ]; then echo "found: $awk_path"; else echo "not found"; echo "*** Awk is required for compilation"; echo "*** Please install it"; exit 2; fi I hope it helps, Best wishes, d. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
