Hi Ben, Am 09.02.2009 um 20:18 schrieb Ben Walton: > I've mostly completed a feature for GAR that I thought I'd get some > feedback on. While putting together one of my packages, I found the > script to be quite nasty. It relies on version numbers of the > package, etc (a maintenance annoyance). It struck me that it might be > nice to have GAR generate this script automatically from a 'template' > thus taking advantage of variables already available to the Makefile > ($GARVERSION, etc). > > What I've put together allows for the definition of functions > (possibly > as extra include files) like this: > > define CSWpkgname_postinstall > #!/bin/sh > > echo I'm the postinstall script for $(GARNAME) v$(GARVERSION). > > for i in /tmp/*; do > echo Found $$i in /tmp; > done > endef > > This seems to work, but has a few drawbacks. As with shell snippets > in regular rules, shell variables must be 'escaped' with $$. Also, > due to the way GNU Make handles the 'defined' variables, \n\n* is > collapsed to \n and any leading \t's are squished. This makes the > resulting script less human readable (although the form stored in GAR > can be as readable as a normal script). > > I should note that this would be an additional method for handling > scripts. It wouldn't alter the traditional method in any way. You > can mix an match to taste. > > Are others interested in something like this? > > Also, I'm not sure how this would interact with classutils. I'm not > familiar at all with the workings there, so pointers as to how this > would interact in that area are welcome.
This is definitely useful! It would be nice though to have a more verbatim-type of definition... Best regards -- Dago _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.opencsw.org https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
