Justin Erenkrantz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:24:29AM -0800, hiten pandya wrote:
>>
>> hello all,
>> greetings,
>>
>> i posted a message a week ago which had a script in it for
>> installing from the CVS repository... but it seems that no
>> one even replied to it.... the shell script is attached
>
> First, if you send attachments, please don't send them
> gzipped. Most of us won't bother to gunzip it. Please read:
>
> http://dev.apache.org/patches.html
>
> before submitting any more patches.
>
> Second, why do we want an installation script? What is wrong
> with "make install" - is there something broken? If you could
> give us some rationale for adding this to the repository, but
> a script for "installing from the CVS repository" seems of
> dubious value - please enlighten us as to why we *have* to have
> this. =) -- justin
I bothered gunzipping, and frankly, I'm more keen to do a
# ./buildconf
# ./configure ...
# make
# make install
rather than a
# ./installer.sh -b
# ./installer.sh -c
# ./installer.sh -I
(and given that "installer.sh" actually cats everything to /dev/null)...
Pier (A very puzzled non-committer :)