how customise specs?

Daniel Kegel dank@kegel.com
Tue May 11 19:19:00 GMT 2004


lazer1 wrote:
> I wish also that the builds were interactive, eg questions:
> 
> "do you wish xyz library to be shared? (y/n)"
> 
> for my own programs I always use interactive shell scripts eg:
> 
> do you want interaction?  
> 
> (no => no further questions)
> 
> do you want to recompile from scratch?
> 
> do you want to regenerate external dependencies from scratch?
> 
> Any part of the build which requires free will should 
> ask the user a question,

If that is needed, it should be a separate layer.  Don't
want scripted builds to halt because gcc needs to ask a question.
Feel free to write a nice front end to the build process
and contribute it.  (That's kinda what I did with crosstool.)
- Dan


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