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diff --git a/mcon/U/d_portable.U b/mcon/U/d_portable.U new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc1aa63 --- /dev/null +++ b/mcon/U/d_portable.U @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +?RCS: $Id: d_portable.U 167 2013-05-08 17:58:00Z rmanfredi $ +?RCS: +?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi +?RCS: +?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic License, +?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution. +?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of +?RCS: that same Artistic License; a copy of which may be found at the root +?RCS: of the source tree for dist 4.0. +?RCS: +?RCS: $Log: d_portable.U,v $ +?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.2 1995/01/11 15:28:52 ram +?RCS: patch45: executable path stripping moved to the end in Config_sh.U +?RCS: +?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1993/12/15 08:21:17 ram +?RCS: patch15: did not strip variables properly when needed +?RCS: patch15: now also strips down variables from trylist +?RCS: +?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:06:48 ram +?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release. +?RCS: +?X: +?X: The Loc unit is wanted to get the definition of all the locating variables. +?X: +?MAKE:d_portable: cat Loc Myread Oldconfig +?MAKE: -pick add $@ %< +?S:d_portable: +?S: This variable conditionally defines the PORTABLE symbol, which +?S: indicates to the C program that it should not assume that it is +?S: running on the machine it was compiled on. +?S:. +?C:PORTABLE: +?C: This symbol, if defined, indicates to the C program that it should +?C: not assume that it is running on the machine it was compiled on. +?C: The program should be prepared to look up the host name, translate +?C: generic filenames, use PATH, etc. +?C:. +?H:#$d_portable PORTABLE /**/ +?H:. +?D:d_portable='' +: decide how portable to be +case "$d_portable" in +"$define") dflt=y;; +*) dflt=n;; +esac +$cat <<'EOH' + +I can set things up so that your shell scripts and binaries are more portable, +at what may be a noticable cost in performance. In particular, if you +ask to be portable, the following happens: + + 1) Shell scripts will rely on the PATH variable rather than using + the paths derived above. + 2) ~username interpretations will be done at run time rather than + by Configure. +@if PHOSTNAME + 3) The system name will be determined at run time, if at all possible. +@end + +EOH +rp="Do you expect to run these scripts and binaries on multiple machines?" +. ./myread +case "$ans" in + y*) d_portable="$define" +?X: +?X: Paths will be stripped down (/usr/bin/vi -> vi) in Config_sh.U if needed. +?X: + ;; + *) d_portable="$undef" ;; +esac + |