[Gambas-user] compile from svn

[Ron Onstenk]

On Saturday 21 October 2006 21:11, R. Stormo wrote:
> I know shall have done everything and still alot of errors.
> 
> rohnny at ...1008...:~/gambas/1.9.44/main$ link ../config.sub config.sub.ron
> rohnny at ...1008...:~/gambas/1.9.44/main$ ls -l config.su*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 rohnny rohnny    13 2006-10-21 18:07 config.sub -> ../config.sub
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 rohnny rohnny 31552 2006-10-21 18:07 config.sub.ron
> 


This shows to me your 'link' executable does not work as gambas likes.
The config.sub is with the svn system a textfile.
In the standard tarbal it is a shortcut.
And that is the problem.
  


I did replace the line in a few of those pseudo link files with:

 (rm ./config.sub; link ../config.sub config.sub) 

 (rm FILE1; link FILE1 FILE2)

 (command1; command2)
The working is that the whole line is passed to bash as one string by the '(' and ')'
You are able to safe remove the source of the line in FILE1
 
remove the file 'config.sub' as done for command1
make the link for FILE1 as FILE2 as done with command2

I suggest to rename the current '/usr/bin/link' to '/usr/bin/link.bin'
make a bash script with name 'link' and make it executable and owner root.


-- code for file --
#!/bin/bash 
rm $0; 
link.bin $1 $0

--end code --

if you get a error try next

-- code for file --
#!/bin/bash 
( rm $0; link.bin $1 $0)      <--- take care the parenthesis

--end code --

An other way is to traverse the whole svn tree and test for file less then 80 char or so.
test for lines starting with 'link' and if then edit/replace the line.

Or Benoit edit his code in those files using the reliable syntax 
as 'link FILE1 FILE2' as the wiki and man pages tell.


I reported this in the past but got no comment from Benoit on/about it.
I give up and started to do some other work.




Ron