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Date:Mon Mar 12 16:08:40 2001 
Subject:Re: Installing poplog: some bugs and some thoughts 
From:ug55aes 
Volume-ID:1010312.12 

> ug55aes@cs.bham.ac.uk wrote:
>
> > Most of the scripts (notably the main 'poplog' script) were written in
> > csh, if I remember.
>
> Do you mean $usepop/pop/com/poplog?  There is an alternative
> $usepop/pop/com/poplog.sh supplied, at least for linux and sun, that
> works with Bourne type shells like sh, bash and ash.

I'd forgotten that.  I'll change the install script to link to that
instead.

Still, I think that INSTALL_LIKE_BHAM and INSTALL_(NO)MOTIF use csh.

> > I thought about it, but in the unlikely event that someone has a weird
> > set-up with different .so.6 and .so files, poplog would still be happy.
>
> Not clear.  What if the .so file were linked to some older or newer
> version like .so.4 or .so.8?  This is just the sort of situation where
> people would be left wondering what was going on.
>
> > Besides that, I don't know an easy way of getting a bash script to check
> > the destination of a symlink :)
>
> ls -l <link> | grep <destination> ?
>

Good idea.  I'll make that change too, then.

> > popcd.tar is a tarball of gzipped tarballs, containing everything you need
>
> Well maybe you should offer it as an optional extra, since it is so
> big.  You don't actually need it to run, or even rebuild, poplog.  I'm
> sure there is some splendid stuff in it, but maybe some duplication as
> well, and if the point of this script is to get people started, you
> might scare them off unnecessarily with 90 minute downloads.

What do you need, then - just linux1553, or are there any others?

	- Andrew