Re: Using AAP for dependency checking (and possibly resolution) on a non-complied program

Gareth Anderson wrote:

> I'm wishing to use AAP or a similar system to assist me in configuring
> a complex shell script(s).
>=20
> I've looked at autoconf and it looked very confusing, so I started
> looking into AAP and it seems better than some of the other similar
> systems for what I want to do (I think). If anyone has other
> recommendations for what I am trying to do please tell me.
>=20
> My main quesion would be, is there an easy way to check that particular
> libraries/programs are installed and of particular versions?
>=20
> If you look here: http://karakas-online.de/mySGML/ you will see what I
> am referring to. There's more files than listed there and some of them
> require particular verisons.
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> Simplifying the program cannot be done, its not a program in itself
> but a bunch of scripts written by Chris Karakas that tie together
> various systems that go from Docbook SGML to PDF/TXT/RTF/HTML output
> at the press of a button (well thats the idea :)). The problem is the
> complexity is making everything work together nicely and getting the
> scripts setup and installed (which is what I'm working on).
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> I noticed that the Vi example recipe mentioned a depends:
> http://www.a-a-p.org/examples.html
> "DEPENDS =3D gtk>=3D1.2<2.0 | motif>=3D1.2 # GTK 2.0 doesn't work yet"

If you are willing to write Python and improve this part of Aap then=20
it will be a good starting point.  Otherwise I would recommend not using
the "port recipe".  I implemented this once when I was looking into using
this for BSD, but have not worked on it since then.  There are a few
parts that are not implemented.  Some parts may not work properly, there
has hardly been any serious testing.

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