On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:03 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:22 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > >>> One does not have to become root. > > > >>> If one does want the software > > > >>> installed as system software, > > > >>> do some testing first. > > > >>> Edit Makefile, > > > >>> removing any .SILENT targets. > > > >>> As an ordinary user, > > > >>> make -n prefix=/opt 'CP=cp -i' install 2>&1 | tee makeno.out > > > >> Same as above. This won't work in most cases. > > > > > > > > In this case, I'm not sure what "won't work" means. > > > > Do you mean that it won't give one a good idea whether > > > > something one doesn't want clobbered will get clobbered? > > > > > > Possibly. A large proportion of projects use "install" rather than "cp" > > > in their Makefile "install" targets. > > > > Is there a reason that the install commands wouldn't show up in > > the output or that they would be performed despite the -n flag? > > The 'CP=cp -i' would obviously be useless. > > It was the 'CP=cp -i' that I was referring to. The "-n" should indeed > prevent any commands from actually being run. However, the volume of > output you get from an autotools-generated Makefile with "-n" would make > it easy to miss something important, particularly given that some of the I know what you mean. I've encountered make files that would emit messages like *** compiling foo.c *** and make the actual compile step silent, hence my advice about .SILENT . The @'s before some commands should also be eliminated. > output could include complex if/then type arrangements. Weren't autotools supposed to eliminate that sort of thing? >From your comment, I gather they didn't. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Demons after money? Whatever happened to the still-beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards any more." -- Rupert Giles
