sudo make install

#1

Post by phoebos » Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 2:02 AM UTC

sudo make install
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Re: sudo make install

#2

Post by phoebos » Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 10:55 AM UTC

There is now a proposal to add CURDIR to POSIX: https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1626

Re: sudo make install

#3

Post by JamesonNetworks » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:40 AM UTC

I’ve been working on Makefiles lately and its funny how many compatibility issues there are. I was doing Sed substitutions and found I needed to change the -i flag to make it work between Mac and Linux. I was really hoping for ultimate portability but ended up learning lots of hacks that lead to portability

Re: sudo make install

#4

Post by bdhcuidbebe » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:56 AM UTC

JamesonNetworks wrote: post #3

I’ve been working on Makefiles lately and its funny how many compatibility issues there are. I was doing Sed substitutions and found I needed to change the -i flag to make it work between Mac and Linux. I was really hoping for ultimate portability but ended up learning lots of hacks that lead to portability

Differences in GNU/BSD sed is hardly a bug in Make.

Re: sudo make install

#5

Post by pjmlp » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 10:31 AM UTC

JamesonNetworks wrote: post #3

I’ve been working on Makefiles lately and its funny how many compatibility issues there are. I was doing Sed substitutions and found I needed to change the -i flag to make it work between Mac and Linux. I was really hoping for ultimate portability but ended up learning lots of hacks that lead to portability

GNU and POSIX differences,

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

Re: sudo make install

#6

Post by sacnoradhq » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 10:55 AM UTC

JamesonNetworks wrote: post #3

I’ve been working on Makefiles lately and its funny how many compatibility issues there are. I was doing Sed substitutions and found I needed to change the -i flag to make it work between Mac and Linux. I was really hoping for ultimate portability but ended up learning lots of hacks that lead to portability

sed -i '' .... is compatible with both. It's not a big deal.

Re: sudo make install

#7

Post by sacnoradhq » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 10:57 AM UTC

sudo make install is failure to use package management and an acceptance of unmanaged and increase system entropy.

Tools like checkinstall are the way to go, at a minimum.

Re: sudo make install

#8

Post by tannhaeuser » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 11:58 AM UTC

phoebos wrote: post #2

There is now a proposal to add CURDIR to POSIX: https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1626

Nice to see POSIX/SUS is still alive. Haven't heard much of it since about the turn of the decade, much less of LSB.

Re: sudo make install

#9

Post by dspillett » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 12:01 PM UTC

bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #4

JamesonNetworks wrote: post #3

I’ve been working on Makefiles lately and its funny how many compatibility issues there are. I was doing Sed substitutions and found I needed to change the -i flag to make it work between Mac and Linux. I was really hoping for ultimate portability but ended up learning lots of hacks that lead to portability

Differences in GNU/BSD sed is hardly a bug in Make.

No, correct.

But it is a good example of something that you might expect to be more standard than it is between platforms, because of its age and relative ubiquity, where the differences get highlighted when trying to create (not just with make but other tools too) a consistent build process for a project.

Re: sudo make install

#10

Post by asicsp » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 12:09 PM UTC

sacnoradhq wrote: post #6

JamesonNetworks wrote: post #3

I’ve been working on Makefiles lately and its funny how many compatibility issues there are. I was doing Sed substitutions and found I needed to change the -i flag to make it work between Mac and Linux. I was really hoping for ultimate portability but ended up learning lots of hacks that lead to portability

sed -i '' .... is compatible with both. It's not a big deal.

Doesn't work with `GNU sed`:

    $ sed -i '' 's/foo/FOO/' ip.txt 
    sed: can't read s/foo/FOO/: No such file or directory