chaffee@reed.bitnet (Not Max) (09/14/90)
I just installed elm 2.3PL6, and it works great (*), but now I'd like to change a Configure option that got set incorrectly (the pathname of the default editor). But I don't want to go through the Configure script all over again. Is there any way I can just edit config.sh and then start Configure right at the point that it makes all the configuration changes? (I'm too scared to just cut out that part of the script and do it without reassurance...) - Alex (*) An odd problem appeared at about the time I installed elm - the Full Name of *all* users, using *any* mailer, is the name of the system adminstrator, when mailing from any machine except our gateway machine (reed). That is, the header reads "From: chaffee (Kent Black)". It's not an environment variable; it's not an elm default -- any ideas?
syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) (09/15/90)
chaffee@reed.bitnet (Not Max) writes: >I just installed elm 2.3PL6, and it works great, but now I'd like to >change a Configure option that got set incorrectly (the pathname of the >default editor). But I don't want to go through the Configure script all >over again. Is there any way I can just edit config.sh and then start >Configure right at the point that it makes all the configuration changes? Almost, but you just edit config.sh and run the .SH files. No need to rerun configure. Ie: edit config.sh then: sh Makefile.SH and repeat for all files ending in .SH. (in all the direcories) Its that simple. (And thats all configure does once it writes the config.sh file anyway) PS: This is not just true for Elm, it works for any Metaconfig type product (The configure script is written by Metaconfig). -- ===================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235
chaffee@reed.UUCP (Alex Chaffee) (09/17/90)
In article <1990Sep14.235753.23268@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes: >chaffee@reed.bitnet (Not Max) writes: >>over again. Is there any way I can just edit config.sh and then start >>Configure right at the point that it makes all the configuration changes? >Almost, but you just edit config.sh and run the .SH files. No need >to rerun configure. I tried this, but for some reason or another, it didn't read the variables. The final files had blank space where the variables were supposed to be! I fixed by by doing 'cat config.sh config.h.SH | sh'. Oddly enough, I just tried it your way, and it worked fine. Strange are the ways of UNIX... -- Alex Chaffee chaffee@reed.{UUCP,BITNET} Reed College, Portland OR 97202 ____________________