On Jan 4,  9:05am, Eduardo E. Horvath  eeh@btr.com wrote:
> Subject: Re: xntpd
>
>
> On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Raymond A. Wiker wrote:
>
> > Hubert Feyrer writes:
> >  > > 	Suggestion: Since a lot (heh...) of software uses "install" to
> >  > > create directories and install files, it might be viable to extend the
> >  > > functionality of "install"... At a minimum, it should be trivial to
> >  > > make "install" create a list of what it does; this could then be
> >  > > processed to give packing lists and scripts for creating a package and
> >  > > uninstalling it.
> >  >
> >  > To be sure to catch everythink you'd also have to patch ln, cp and maybe
mv...
> >  > sounds like a quite gross hack to me. :(
> [...]
> > 	Seriously, my post was about extending install to assist in
> > generating packages - it's obvious that it is not possible to devise a
> > complete, automatic solution.
>
> make -n install | {awk,sed,perl} some_funy_script_that_generates_a_package

Interresting approach... can we assume that 'make -n' is always done
recursively (i.e. if you have some make-call in the Makefile)?

Then, *you* write that mentioned funny_script. :-)))


Hubert

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