On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:53, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > Not to one-up you but... > > I record the steps I take to build something in a script, so that the > next time I build something I can edit the script a little and run it. > Lately I've added a boilerplate at the top that sets the PATH, > LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other variables so that things are 100% repeatable. > (You'd be surprised at the number of times I need to make subtle > changes to the PATH to get something to build.) > > Eventually I made the editing easier by changing version numbers to > variables, which are all set at the top of the script. > > And not to brag, but you should see my BUILD_APACHE.sh script. It gets > apache, php, mod_perl, checks the md5 checksums, builds everything, and > does the install. And I only have to change variables at the top each > time a new version is released. > > I highly recommend this technique for anyone that upgrades UNIX > packages frequently.
You'd love our build-out scripts for when we deploy Zope at a customer site. :) -Barry ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
