From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yngve Svendsen To: Milan Zamazal , gnats-devel@sources.redhat.com Subject: Need "usertool" target for make Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:54:00 -0000 Message-id: <5.0.0.25.2.20010613163931.00bcae20@mail.trd.clustra.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-q2/msg00175.html I am currently sweating over the documentation for installing GNATS user tools on remote machines, so that the tools can access gnatsd directly over the network. In my opinion, the logical strategy for this looks something like this: - On the client machine, download and untar GNATS. Run "./configure" - Run "make usertools". This would build all the tools required on client machines, roughly corresponding to the tools currently built by the targets send-pr in send-pr/Makefile and tools-all in gnats/Makefile. - Run "make install-usertools". This would install the tools built by the make above and copy a default send-pr.conf file to /usr/local/etc/gnats. - Edit send-pr.conf to fit local needs and add a proper GNATSDB variable setting to user's environments. I am unable to find anything resembling the targets "usertools" and "install-usertools" outlined above in the current master Makefile, but I don't think adding this would be a lot of work. However, I am not sufficiently experienced with makefiles to do this myself. An alternative would be to add a --tools-only option to configure. I don't know what solution would be the best, but we really need to have a way to install the user tools on client machines before GNATS 4 can be said to be complete. - Yngve