Re: More JDE woes.
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:37:06 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull"
<turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> said:
I certainly hope not! I hope such bugs don't make it into SUMO.
I
was referring to the situation where people are updating random
packages between SUMOs. Without a proper dependency checking system,
"update all to most recent" is the best we can do.
I still see that as a potential horrorshow - the sysadmin installs the
most recent SUMO, a user gets his own copy of package XYZ, which blows
chunks until you discover you need to install ABC, byte-compile, install
DEF, then XYZ, then byte-compile again.
./configure --prefix=/depot/gnu --exec-prefix=/depot/gnu/plat ...
has been working for me for just ages. So much so that I've forgotten
about it, I just keep doing ./config.status --recheck. There was the
package-get breakage (ultimately EFS IIRC?) but that's OK now too.
Symptoms?
Umm.. many moons ago, when I tried to build packages, I'd not be able to
convince them they needed to *run* from /usr/local/yaddayadda, but that
a 'make install' should place them in /local/stage/yaddayadda, so that a
later run of 'depot' could copy them to /usr/local. In any case, I've
ditched 'depot' for most stuff, and am migrating to the native AIX
'installp'
scheme, which provides truly insane dependency checking (but which I've
not looked into building a XEmacs base or Sumo package yet)..
/Valdis
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