INSTALL.adoc

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:58:48 -0700
Hal Murray <halmurray at sonic.net> wrote:

> >> That "to" looks backwards to me.  I expect:
> >>     link python to your python3  
> > python3 exists, python does not.  So you create python by linking
> > it to python3.  As Fred says: like cp.  
> 
> The ln command looked OK to me.  I was commenting about the
> descriptive text.  To me, "to" has an arrow from left to right.
> 
> 
> > ... you can create a link to you python3, called python. Like so:  
> 
> Looks fine.  But second you => your

Change pushed.

> >> That command line doesn't work on FreeBSD or NetBSD  
> > Yeah, *BSD are weird.  tell me how you do it, and I'll add that as
> > well.   

I added the FreeBSD and NetBSD python3 locations.  BUt I expect you'll
want more.

> buildprep says:
>   For FreeBSD
>      $install python             # python => python3
> My attempt at installing NetBSD didn't work and I haven't sorted that
> out yet so I haven't debugged/fixed buildprep for NetBSD yet.

I'll leave that to you.

> > > Should we fix waf install to do the magic for SELinux?  
> > Not everyone uses SELinux.  Linus says he hates SELinux.  Doing it
> > for all distributiuons would be a can of worms.  I'll stay away
> > from that subject.   
> 
> Fedora is the only system where I've encountered it.

Gentoo, Ubuntu, and others, do SELinux.  BUt not by default.

> I was thinking of running the extra steps only if SELinux was active.
> There is a program to test that.  I've forgotten the name.  So we
> would have to test for the program being installed and then test its
> result.  Or just test for it being installed in case it is turned off
> while waf install is run and gets turned back on later.

As Linus recommends, I avoid SELinux.  I'll leave that to others.

RGDS
GARY
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