[gobolinux-users] sandboxintall broken?

[Carlo Calica]

On 6/29/07, kenneth marken <k-marken at online.no> wrote:
> On Friday 29 June 2007 23:23:44 Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> >
> > Even so, it shouldn't stop you from using MakeRecipe by specifying name and
> > version for the application you want to make a recipe for.
>
> true, but when your sitting there with a bit of code you just want to get
> compiled so that you can test it out, this is getting into the area of
> overkill. as in, its clear that the tools are made for contributors rather
> then end users.
>

We used to have a tool called CompileProgram that did just as you say.
 It was cumbersome to use (requiring odd combinations of switchs and
args to select different options).  You need to provide the same
metadata (except url) to both CompileProgram and Compile.  Compile
just uses an easy to understand file format.

Compile used to have code to handle tarballs directly (rather than
url= use file=) but it isn't recommended.  Hasn't been tested for a
while.  And might have even been removed or used for something
different and I'm making assumptions.

Now long term.  /System/Index will make a lot of this go away.  We'll
just need a simple wrapper around any "make install" step.

-- 
Carlo J. Calica