Just a couple points about make install and why it is not currently supported. This is something that could quite easily be optionally supported and quite frankly if you consistently run it at the moment every time you update, that's supportable.
Currently make install will copy everything from the ledgersmb root director to (I believe) the site perl directory. This is fine up to a point, in the sense that Perl will find the modules and load them properly and if the rest of the configuration is handled, but it causes two issues to be aware of, one minor and the other a little more limiting. The first is that it currently clutters up the site-perl directory with sql files, templates, and the like. That's annoying and needs to be fixed before we say "go ahead and run make install" but it's not the end of the world if you want to make it your policy to run it every time. The larger problem is that it makes it impossible to run parallel versions side by side, because Perl will pull the module out of site-perl first, meaning that the copy in the local directory is ignored. If you are trying to run 1.2 and 1.3 on the same computer you cannot use make install, because the one installed last will overwrite the one installed earlier, and only one set of perl modules can be effectively loaded in this way. This is a fundamental issue and one that doesn't have a really simple solution to. Consequently I don't imagine make install will ever be used in a development environment. As for installing the database, it is possible to do this right now using make install (technically it happens during the make test phase because the database is created, populated with test data, tested, test inserts rolled back, and database deemed to succeed or fail testing). However, we should probably have a custom make target for this, because folks are likely to want the ability to install multiple databases in this way, and LSMB_INSTALL_DB=1.... make test is probably not as clear as it needs to be (that is essentially what the installdb target should do, however, is map to that). Best Wishes, Chris Travers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list Ledger-smb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
