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Re: Excuses for not installing GNU Parallel
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Ole Tange |
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Re: Excuses for not installing GNU Parallel |
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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:06:45 +0200 |
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Thomas Sattler
<sattler@med.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> Hi Ole,
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> I like the idea of a simple way to install Gnu Parallel, but
> the current script does a rather bad job. I'll list a few
> examples; a modified version of the script is attached.
Great.
It failed on OpenBSD, so I adapted it somewhat.
> I changed to /usr/src (if root) or $HOME otherwise. This
> might prevent using the script if the chosen directory is
> read-only, but I still prefer it over the current version
> (accidental downgrades). BTW: Installation would fail
> anyway if /usr/ and $HOME were read-only. :-)
I am not too happy about that. I am not sure if /usr/src is generally
used for source based install on all platforms, and if I run it
blindly I would like to know that it had created a dir there.
So have I removed this part.
> The test, whether $HOME/bin is in PATH fails, if $HOME/bin is
> not added the way you expect.
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> I test whether $HOME/bin is in $PATH (shell environment)
> and I moved this part to the end of the script.
Sounds reasonable.
It is now added as '10seconds_install'.
/Ole