The only "configuration" is when you want to switch between alternate
Rexx interpreters. Just as you have to run a script to switch between
different versions of ooRexx.
With the relocatable executables that ooRexx has, how do man pages get
swapped?
eg. I have a version of ooRexx installed in say /opt/ooRexx-v5.0.0 which
has a rexx.1 man page with certain contents, and I have another version
of ooRexx installed in /opt/ooRexx-v5.1.0 which has introduced a new
switch to the rexx binary and is documented in the new rexx.1 man page.
When I switch executables, how are the equivalent man pages switched so
I get the correct man page contents for the correct binary?
While the concept of relocatable executables is a great idea for
switching between different versions of ooRexx, how does it work when I
want to switch between ooRexx and Regina?
Cheers, Mark
On 7/4/20 9:27 am, Enrico Sorichetti wrote:
> I just looked at the man pages both for Ubuntu and Fedora, and it
> looks like
> The update alternatives have to be configured
>
> IMO it is much more simple to
> Cd <path to the rexx executable directory>
> Export PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
> Or better use the attached snippets
>
> It works for me on Darwin Fedora, CentOS
> Enrico
>
> Here are two bash snippets to add/remove a directory to/from the PATH
> ( I have also the same for zsh )
>
> Cd somewhere and …
>
> The snippets should be sourced, not executed
>
> source path.here
> . path.here
>
> source path.remove
> . path.remove
>
>
> # path.here
> # remove the current path from the PATH and add it to the front
>
> # add in front of PATH
> prepen_path()
> {
> if ! eval test -z "\"\${$1##*:$2:*}\"" -o -z "\"\${$1%%*:$2}\"" -o
> -z "\"\${$1##$2:*}\"" -o -z "\"\${$1##$2}\"" ; then
> eval "$1=$2:\$$1"
> fi
> }
>
> # remove path
> remove_path()
> {
> # front/middle
> if eval test -z "\"\${$1##$2:*}\"" -o -z "\"\${$1##*:$2:*}\"" ; then
> eval "$1=${!1/$2:/}"
> return
> fi
> # tail
> if eval test -z "\"\${$1%%*:$2}\"" ; then
> eval "$1=${!1/:$2/}"
> return
> fi
> # only
> if eval test -z "\"\${$1##$2}\"" ; then
> eval "$1=${!1/$2/}"
> return
> fi
> }
>
> # the works
> here="$(pwd)"
> if ! test -d "${here}" ; then
> echo "strange ... path not found '${here}'"
> else
> remove_path PATH "${here}"
> export PATH
> prepen_path PATH "${here}"
> export PATH
> fi
>
> # cleanup
> unset prepen_path
> unset remove_path
>
>
>
>
> # path.remove
> # remove the current path from the PATH
>
> # remove path
> remove_path()
> {
> # front/middle
> if eval test -z "\"\${$1##$2:*}\"" -o -z "\"\${$1##*:$2:*}\"" ; then
> eval "$1=${!1/$2:/}"
> return
> fi
> # tail
> if eval test -z "\"\${$1%%*:$2}\"" ; then
> eval "$1=${!1/:$2/}"
> return
> fi
> # only
> if eval test -z "\"\${$1##$2}\"" ; then
> eval "$1=${!1/$2/}"
> return
> fi
> }
>
> #the works
> here="$(pwd)"
> if ! test -d "${here}" ; then
> echo "strange ... path not found '${here}'"
> else
> remove_path PATH "${here}"
> export PATH
> fi
>
> # cleanup
> unset remove_path
>
>
>
>> On 7 Apr 2020, at 01:05, Mark Hessling <m...@rexx.org
>> <mailto:m...@rexx.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi P.O.,
>>
>> I apologise for problems my changes caused you; it was not
>> intentional and if I had known about your problems at the time I
>> would have fixed them.
>>
>
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* Mark Hessling, m...@rexx.org http://www.rexx.org/
* Author of THE, a Free XEDIT/KEDIT editor and, Rexx/SQL, Rexx/CURL, etc.
* Maintainer of Regina Rexx interpreter
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