Need "usertool" target for make

Need "usertool" target for make

[Yngve Svendsen]

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

Re: Need "usertool" target for make

[Milan Zamazal]

>>>>> "YS" == Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com> writes:

    YS> I am unable to find anything resembling the targets "usertools"
    YS> and "install-usertools" outlined above in the current master
    YS> Makefile, but I don't think adding this would be a lot of
    YS> work. However, I am not sufficiently experienced with makefiles
    YS> to do this myself.

    YS> An alternative would be to add a --tools-only option to
    YS> configure. I don't know what solution would be the best, but we
    YS> really need to have a way to install the user tools on client
    YS> machines before GNATS 4 can be said to be complete.

There used to be the configure option `--with-full-gnats' but that was
removed.  However, gnats/Makefile.in still contains the *-gnats and
*-tools targets serving exactly that purpose.  They only don't seem to
be propagated to the top-level Makefile.

BTW, the top-level Makefile looks like a horrible mess.  It's three
times larger than the Emacs one and it seems to be more general than
needed, I don't like it.  Unless anyone objects, I'll clean it up,
together with moving the documentation to a separate directory.

Milan Zamazal

-- 
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						      Bill Gates

Re: Need "usertool" target for make

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 14:35 17.06.2001 +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote:
>There used to be the configure option `--with-full-gnats' but that was
>removed.  However, gnats/Makefile.in still contains the *-gnats and
>*-tools targets serving exactly that purpose.  They only don't seem to
>be propagated to the top-level Makefile.
>
>BTW, the top-level Makefile looks like a horrible mess.  It's three
>times larger than the Emacs one and it seems to be more general than
>needed, I don't like it.  Unless anyone objects, I'll clean it up,
>together with moving the documentation to a separate directory.

Excellent idea. I won't do any checkins on the manual for a few days now, 
so just go ahead.

- Yngve