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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] splitting BUILD
  • Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:39:39 +0100

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:31:19AM -0800, Andrew wrote:
> >
> > Just a note why i think it won't be bulletproof: i just had to replace
> > prepare_install in the valgrind spell by a message and a dispel, because
> > save_libraries screws up (valgrind installs a libpthread.so in it's own
> > directory, totally breaking dispel when that gets used instead of the
> > libc one). I don't think such cases can be reliably detected.
> >
> *shrug*
> Yep, theres really no way to deal with a spell that doesnt have
> prepare_install, but for everything else, it should hopefully do the
> right thing. We'll just have to enumerate the special spells specifically.
>
> Also, your rewriting of prepare_install sounds to be the perfect
> motivation for having the PRE_INSTALL script.

Indeed, i was really confused by the error i got at first :)
Definitely needs a PRE_INSTALL in the new system, i don't think there
are many such spells, but it's always good to be prepared for weird
stuff.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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