Re: [Gimp-developer] Two questions about updating GIMP from git

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif shlomifish org>]

Hi Elle,

On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:44:23 -0400
Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com> wrote:

> I update three separate copies of babl/gegl/gimp from git, each in a 
> prefix, on average once a week.
>
> Other than reading the git logs, is there an easy way to check to see 
> whether software requirements (png, tiff, glib, etc) have been bumped up?
>
> Also, I've been updating command by command in a virtual terminal and my 
> computer isn't very fast. I'd like to write a script that executes all 
> the commands all at once, but exits with an informative error message 
> printed to screen as soon as something doesn't configure, compile, or 
> install properly. Does anyone have such a script or know how to write one?

This should be doable with a script written in Shell, Perl 5, Python, Ruby,
etc. by inspecting the status exit code of the command.

E.g: in Bash:

if ! ./configure $PARAMS > configure.log 2>&1 ; then
        echo "Configure command failed"
        exit -1
fi

(Untested!)

There may be a ready made solution, but writing something quick yourself would
probably be less time consuming.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

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I also have versions of this code in COBOL.NET, Intercal, PDP‐10 Assembly, J,
APL, Windows NT 4.0 Batch script and Autocad Lisp — I’m sure you can handle
all of them because none of them is Perl. ;-).

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