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MGE System Utilities Library
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Author - Copyright (C) 2017-2019 Mark Grant
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Contents
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1 ... Project Description
2 ... AutoTools (configure and make) Installation
3 ... Installation of Distro-Native Packages
4 ... Utility Scripts
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1 ... Project Description
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This AutoTools project contains the libmgesysutils MGE System Utilities Library.
Notable function subjects include:-
Config file parsing.
Send a remote syslog entry.
If you are going to build, or build against, this libmgesysutils MGE System
Utilities Library then you must install the development files from
libmgesysutils-dev. Other required dependencies not installed on your system
will be identified by the configure script. Any of these produced by this author
can be found in a repository located here:-
https://github.com/m-grant-prg
N.B.
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At a source modification / development level, this project expects to reside in
a git environment. This manifests itself in 2 places:-
1) ... .gitignore files are included in the source.
2) ... The make target, 'srctarball', relies on the command 'git am' so it will
fail if git is not installed or it is not in a git repository.
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2 ... AutoTools (configure and make) Installation
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a) ... Download either the source or distribution tarball (the .tar.gz file)
from:-
https://github.com/m-grant-prg/libmgesysutils/releases
b) ... Extract the tarball preserving the directory structure.
c) ... cd to the directory created.
d) ... If you downloaded the source tarball type 'autoreconf -if'
e) ... Type './configure'
f) ... As root or sudo, type 'make install clean'
(Quote marks are for textual clarity only).
To uninstall the package:
1 ... cd to the directory created in the above install process.
2 ... As root or sudo, type 'make uninstall clean'
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3 ... Installation of Distro-Native Packages
============================================
Installation packages native to different distributions are available, please
refer to the relevant installation section on the wiki at:-
https://github.com/m-grant-prg/libmgesysutils/wiki
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4 ... Utility Scripts
=====================
In the project root directory there are 2 helper scripts; bootstrap.sh and
gen-gnulib.sh.
bootstrap.sh
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This misleadingly named script bootstraps the project build and provides other
useful features. The main options are probably b, c, C, D and T.
In AutoTools it is usually advisable to perform parallel builds. This means you
build somewhere other than the project root. This is because building creates
files and they would confuse the project root downwards. I always create a build
directory straight off the project root, cd to there and do all build and git
work from there, (.gitignore is already set to ignore such a directory).
Assuming you adopt the preceding paragraph then a typical invocation of the
script would be:-
../bootstrap.sh --config --build ..
The last '..' points the way to project root.
For the full list of arguments to bootstrap.sh, please refer to the options
section of the acmbuild wiki, the options are identical:-
https://github.com/m-grant-prg/acmbuild/wiki
gen-gnulib.sh
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This script generates or re-generates the gnulib requirements, I shan't go into
detail here.
It is useful when setting up the project initially, when you are actually
building in what is required and thinking about it, thereafter it is best to use
../bootstrap.sh --gnulib ..
as it determines whether to do a re-generate based on whether the cache file
exists, i.e. it has been wanted before.
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