feedback on install.sh

[Julian Field]

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John Rudd wrote:

> On May 11, 2005, at 18:29, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> John Rudd wrote:
>>
>>> 1) it would be nice if, when looking for perl, if it finds multiple
>>> copies (like /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl), if it would check
>>> to see if one is a symlink to the other, and then do the right thing.
>>
>>
>> That one's a bit awkward, is it vital?
>
>
> It's not vital, but it is annoying.  Is it that awkward?  Why not load
> all found perls into an array, then (warning, inefficient code follows,
> but shouldn't be a problem for most systems):

That would be easy, if it was perl, which it's not :-)

>
> for ($i = 0 ; $i <= $#perlbinaries ; $i++) {
>    # replace any instances that are symlinks with their targets
>    # and keep doing it until it's not a symlink anymore, or
>    # the target doesn't exist
>    while ((-e $perlbinaries[$i]) && (-l $perlbinaries[$i])) {
>      $perlbinaries[$i] = readlink($perlbinaries[$i]);
>       }
>    }
>
> # insure that duplicates will be consecutive
> @perlbinaries = sort (@perlbinaries);
>
> # too bad there isn't a uniq() like there is a grep() and sort()
> for ($i = 0 ; $i <= $#perlbinaires ; $i++) {
>       # iteratively remove duplicates
>       while ($perlbinaries[$i] eq $perlbinaries[($i + 1)]) {
>          splice(@perlbinaries, ($i + 1), 1);
>          }
>       }
>
> if ($#perlbinaries > 0) {
>    # complain about multiple perl binaries
>    }
> # otherwise, keep running, using $perlbinaries[0] as your perl engine
>
>>> 2) if it can't find GNU tar as tar, it should look for gtar
>>
>>
>> Done. Please try the attached install.tar-fns.sh.
>
>
> What's the difference between install.sh and install.tar-fns.sh?  I ran
> the former when I installed ...
>
>
>>> 3) it keeps complaining that:
>>>
>>> Your perl and your Config.pm seem to have different ideas about the
>>> architecture they are running on.
>>> Perl thinks: [sun4-solaris]
>>> Config says: [sun4-solaris]
>>> This may or may not cause problems. Please check your installation of
>>> perl
>>> if you have problems building this extension.
>>
>>
>> This one can't easily be avoided,
>> Sorry.
>
>
> No problem, I just wanted to be sure that it is known and/or harmless.
>
>>> 4) I also got lots of these errors:
>>>
>>> Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at
>>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/sun4-solaris/DynaLoader.pm line 168.
>>>
>>> during the test phases for installation of MIME-tools-5.417 and
>>> Archive-Zip-1.14
>>
>>
>> That sounds like a fault in DynaLoader.pm or something that is being
>> passed to them. I suspect that is outside of my control.
>>
>
> Probably.  Hopefully it wont actually cause problems.
>
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