I just got started playing with mharc. I have MHonArc installed in
/usr/local/mhonarc, with the library files in /usr/local/mhonarc/lib.
When I ran make configure, mhonarc-check couldn't find the MHonArc library
files, and so make configure failed.
This was easy to solve; I just added:
use lib '/usr/local/mhonarc/lib';
to mhonarc-check. However, it seems to me that having to do this is a
bug, because I should be able to define this in config.sh. The problem
is that there is no config.sh until make configure succeeds, but make
configure requires mhonarc-check to succeed, and mhonarc-check will fail
because the path to MHonArc's library files is not defined in config.sh!
It seems to me that the correct sequence should be:
1. Generate config.sh and lists.def first, and give the user the
opportunity to edit them.
2. After the user has an opportunity to edit the files, make configure
should run mhonarc-check and apply-config.
Earl, are you planning to write a tool (similar to MHonArc's install.me)
for generating config.sh and lists.def? That would also allow you to
define the location for the Perl binary as well, which is currently
hardcoded.
Incidentally, I thought about submitting this as a bug to Savannah, but I
didn't for two reasons. First, it's not so much a bug as it is a
suggestion. Second, there isn't a bug tracking category for mharc.
-Eugene
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+=== Eugene Eric Kim ===== eekim(_at_)eekim(_dot_)com =====
http://www.eekim.com/ ===+
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+===== can have an excuse to drink alcohol." --Steve Martin ===========+
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