On Mon, September 5, 2005 21:48, Dan McGhee said:
[...]
> base configure script. The command from the source tree is
> '../blfs-configure' and so on using my terminology. Of course, 'su'
> to
> root for make install.
This loses the prime advantage of using the hint (in my view), the
installed f
On Tue, September 6, 2005 4:33, Tushar Teredesai said:
> You could just use re-direction to achieve the result that you need,
> though the side effect is that you won't see any output on the
> console.
I'm curious Tushar, how would you program that? I wouldn't mind not
seeing anything on the scr
On 9/3/05, S. Anthony Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is NOT a problem, unless one of the functions sets a variable, or cd's to
> a directory (typically in the configure_commands function, the way I use it
> at least), and the variable needs to be accessible later, or later commands
> ne
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Dan McGhee wrote these words on 09/05/05 15:48 CST:
What I lose with this method is the delete_package of the hint. For
packages that have a 'make uninstall' target this is irrelevant.
Meaning you trust a package developer to clean up your disk for
you? And I'm
Dan McGhee wrote these words on 09/05/05 15:48 CST:
> What I lose with this method is the delete_package of the hint. For
> packages that have a 'make uninstall' target this is irrelevant.
Meaning you trust a package developer to clean up your disk for
you? And I'm sure all those packages where
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote:
Hi all.
A recent problem (xorg build attempting to overwrite fontconfig configuration
files) led me to investigate further. I believe the problem arises because
I'm attempting to use the routine improperly.
If I understand what you are doing, you have arrived at
Hi all.
A recent problem (xorg build attempting to overwrite fontconfig configuration
files) led me to investigate further. I believe the problem arises because
I'm attempting to use the routine improperly.
The build script calls three functions configure_commands(), make_commands()
and insta
