[MKSearch-dev] Compiling on linux (was:Week 2 round up)

[Chris Croome]

Hi

(taking this back onto the list...)

On Fri 22-Oct-2004 at 03:17:08PM +0100, Phil Shaw wrote:
> On 22 Oct 2004, at 13:29, Bruno Postle wrote:
> 
> > On a fedora linux machine I needed to install the gcc-java
> > package. 
> 
> Okay good, hopefully that was quite simple. Do you think it would
> be worth documenting some typical gcc installation procedures?
> 
> > The bash scripts are stored in DOS text format, so I had to
> > convert them to unix format before bash would run them:
> 
> Sorry, that was a silly oversight with my text editor. I've
> committed corrections with Unix format.

Subversion has stuff for dealing with this, on projects where it's a
mixture of windows usera nd linux users I tend to set all the file
to be in unix format, for example to do this for a index.html file
do this:

  svn ps svn:eol-style LF index.html

  http://wiki.slugbug.org.uk/Subversion#Setting_properties

Chris

> > There is a bug at the beginning of bin/compile-jaxp.sh:
> 
> Thank you. I've just committed the correction.
> 
> > 'jar' on my system is in /usr/bin rather than /bin, so I had to
> > change the references to '/bin/jar' into 'jar' in jar-jaxp.sh,
> > jar-junit.sh & jar-servlet.sh.
> 
> I wonder if there's a crafty way of locating the GNU version and
> no other and substituting its path? I suppose this may need to be
> another explicit environment setting.
> 
> > After that compiling works ok:
> 
> Excellent, thanks very much Bruno. Have a good weekend.

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